Coal Run Village, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Coal Run Village, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Coal Run Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Coal Run Village — the short answer
Coal Run Village, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 223 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~223
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 6K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Coal Run Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coal Run Village's 223-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Coal Run Village
Each reading below is measured for Coal Run Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCoal Run Village runs about 223 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCoal Run Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Coal Run Village is in
Coal Run Village sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Coal Run Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pike County.
What Grows in Coal Run Village
Every plant below cleared Coal Run Village's own zone 7a and its 223-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Coal Run Village?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Coal Run Village
Survey cells within 31 miles of Coal Run Village checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 68 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Coal Run Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Coal Run Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Pikeville Ready Mix IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Kentucky State Police Post 9Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Plaza StaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS #1094Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- K Mart 7174Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Rich Oil No 3824Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Cardinal Mart No 8Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Hometown Convenience StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Check Point Food & FuelUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- KENTUCKY POWER COMPANY- PIKEVILLE SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- Oasis StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Pikeville Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coal Run Village's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Coal Run Village.
Total Sites
200
within ~10 miles of Coal Run Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Coal Run Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Coal Run Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Coal Run Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Coal Run Village — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (179 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Coal Run Village
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coal Run Village average
Your land is one point inside Coal Run Village
Everything above resolves to Coal Run Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Coal Run Village Average
Coal Run Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Coal Run Village
- ●One soil character for all of Coal Run Village
- ●Frost dates read at Coal Run Village's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coal Run Village's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Coal Run Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Coal Run Village, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Coal Run Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coal Run Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coal Run Village average
How we know this about Coal Run Village
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Coal Run Village’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Coal Run Village
When does frost risk typically end in Coal Run Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Coal Run Village typically lands around Mar 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 19.
When is the first frost in Coal Run Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Coal Run Village typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 223 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Coal Run Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Coal Run Village sees about 223 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 24, about 188 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Coal Run Village?
The federal record around Coal Run Village is a meaningful one — 200 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (179), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Coal Run Village?
From about Oct 8 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Coal Run Village's scale — its 7a band and its 223-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Coal Run Village's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Coal Run Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Coal Run Village's own scale — its own ~223-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,601 acres it covers and 200 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coal Run Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Coal Run Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 7 and the ~223-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 200 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Coal Run Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Coal Run Village's boundary and the 5,601 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~223-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Coal Run Village's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Coal Run Village checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Coal Run Village's 5,601 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pike County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pike County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pike County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coal Run Village's 5,601 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Coal Run Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,601 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Coal Run Village-wide figureread your own land →
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