Vicco, KY 41804 Frost Dates
41804, near Vicco, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Vicco 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
Vicco's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Vicco's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 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.
Vicco against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Vicco places 20,921 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 521 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41804: the frost range, on how to read the range around Vicco's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Vicco can differ from the 41804 normal.