Wayland, KY 41640 Frost Dates
41640, near Wayland, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Wayland sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wayland's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wayland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Wayland places 24,005 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 755 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41640: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wayland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wayland can differ from the 41640 normal.