Bradshaw, WV 24811 Frost Dates
24811, near Bradshaw, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bradshaw in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bradshaw's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bradshaw's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bradshaw against the rest of the dataset
About 194 days separate Bradshaw's last and first frost, putting it 19,636 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 201 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24811: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bradshaw's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bradshaw's dates instead of trusting one.