Davy, WV 24843 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Davy, WV, ZIP 24843
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 194 frost-free days later.
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 Davy, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Davy has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Davy's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Davy compares
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Davy places 19,634 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 200 of 885.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Davy's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Davy can differ from the 24843 normal.