Whitesburg, KY 41858 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Whitesburg, KY, ZIP 41858
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 183 frost-free days later.
Whitesburg 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Whitesburg has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Whitesburg's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Whitesburg compares
About 183 days separate Whitesburg's last and first frost, putting it 23,889 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 719 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Whitesburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Whitesburg can differ from the 41858 normal.