Wheelwright, KY 41606 Frost Dates
Wheelwright, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Wheelwright, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Wheelwright's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wheelwright's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wheelwright against the rest of the dataset
Wheelwright's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,917 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 725 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41606's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wheelwright's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wheelwright can differ from the 41606 normal.