Hyden, KY 41714 Frost Dates
Hyden, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Hyden 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Hyden's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hyden against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Hyden's last and first frost, putting it 20,561 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 475 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41714's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Hyden's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hyden's dates instead of trusting one.