Pippa Passes, KY 41817 Frost Dates
Pippa Passes, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Pippa Passes, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Pippa Passes'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
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pippa Passes against the rest of the dataset
Pippa Passes's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,970 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 733 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41817's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pippa Passes's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pippa Passes's dates instead of trusting one.