Hedgesville, WV 21749 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hedgesville, WV, ZIP 21749
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 187 frost-free days later.
Hedgesville sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Hedgesville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hedgesville's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hedgesville compares
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Hedgesville places 22,594 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 346 of 885.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Hedgesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Hedgesville can differ from the 21749 normal.