Hazard, KY 41723 Frost Dates
41723, near Hazard, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Hazard 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
Hazard'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 Hazard's last frost
04/19 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 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hazard against the rest of the dataset
Hazard's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,004 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 605 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41723: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Hazard's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hazard's dates instead of trusting one.