Oceana, WV 24823 Frost Dates
24823, near Oceana, 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.
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 Oceana, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Oceana'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 Oceana'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.
Oceana against the rest of the dataset
About 194 days separate Oceana's last and first frost, putting it 19,525 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 168 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24823: the frost range, on how to read the range around Oceana's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Oceana can differ from the 24823 normal.