Gary, WV 24836 Frost Dates
Gary, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 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 Gary, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Gary's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gary's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gary against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Gary's last and first frost, putting it 20,010 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 215 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24836's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gary's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gary can differ from the 24836 normal.