Wheelwright, KY 41862 Frost Dates
Wheelwright, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Wheelwright'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.
Wheelwright against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Wheelwright's last and first frost, putting it 23,923 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 731 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41862's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wheelwright can differ from the 41862 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wheelwright's frost date answer different questions.