Bradshaw, WV 24657 Frost Dates
24657, near Bradshaw, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 173 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 Bradshaw, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bradshaw's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/27 isn't a guarantee
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bradshaw against the rest of the dataset
Bradshaw's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,088 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 661 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24657: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bradshaw can differ from the 24657 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bradshaw's frost date answer different questions.