Hindman, KY 41834 Frost Dates
41834, near Hindman, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 191 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 Hindman, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hindman'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.
Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee
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.
Hindman against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Hindman's last and first frost, putting it 20,868 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 510 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41834: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hindman's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hindman can differ from the 41834 normal.