Whitesville, KY 42366 Frost Dates
42366, near Whitesville, KY: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
Whitesville 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
Whitesville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whitesville against the rest of the dataset
Whitesville's growing season runs about 218 days, ranking 13,323 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 33 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42366: the frost range, on how to read the range around Whitesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Whitesville can differ from the 42366 normal.