Bradshaw, WV 24813 Frost Dates
Bradshaw, 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 10/27, roughly 194 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Bradshaw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Bradshaw places 19,637 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 202 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24813's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bradshaw can differ from the 24813 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bradshaw's frost date answer different questions.