Ridgeley, WV 21503 Frost Dates
Ridgeley, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
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 Ridgeley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Ridgeley'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
04/15 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 21,270 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 314 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 21503's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ridgeley can differ from the 21503 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Ridgeley's frost date answer different questions.