Ridgeley, WV 21501 Frost Dates
21501, near Ridgeley, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Ridgeley 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
Ridgeley's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ridgeley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Ridgeley places 21,268 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 312 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 21501: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ridgeley can differ from the 21501 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Ridgeley's frost date answer different questions.