Oakvale, WV 24739 Frost Dates
Oakvale, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Oakvale 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Oakvale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oakvale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Oakvale places 24,358 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 422 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24739's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Oakvale's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Oakvale's dates instead of trusting one.