Hazard, KY 41729 Frost Dates
Hazard, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Hazard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Hazard places 22,005 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 606 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41729's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hazard's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hazard can differ from the 41729 normal.