Whitesville, KY 42378 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Whitesville, KY?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 192 frost-free days later.
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 Whitesville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Whitesville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Whitesville's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Whitesville compares
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Whitesville places 20,513 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 464 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Whitesville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Whitesville's dates instead of trusting one.