Hyden, KY 41749 Frost Dates
41749, near Hyden, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 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
Hyden'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
04/19 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.
Hyden against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Hyden places 22,193 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 631 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41749: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Hyden's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hyden's dates instead of trusting one.