Wayland, KY 41666 Frost Dates
41666, near Wayland, KY: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wayland 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
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.
The actual range around Wayland's last frost
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
About 183 days separate Wayland's last and first frost, putting it 24,009 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 759 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41666: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wayland can differ from the 41666 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Wayland's frost date answer different questions.