Pikeville, KY 41560 Frost Dates
41560, near Pikeville, KY: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pikeville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pikeville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pikeville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Pikeville places 29,404 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 873 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41560: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pikeville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pikeville can differ from the 41560 normal.