Wheelwright, KY 41828 Frost Dates
41828, near Wheelwright, KY: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Wheelwright 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
Wheelwright'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.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
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.
Wheelwright against the rest of the dataset
Wheelwright's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,922 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 730 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41828: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Wheelwright's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wheelwright's dates instead of trusting one.