Iaeger, WV 24845 Frost Dates
24845, near Iaeger, 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 Iaeger, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Iaeger'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Iaeger against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Iaeger places 19,616 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 196 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24845: local microclimates, on what one yard in Iaeger can differ from the 24845 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Iaeger's frost date answer different questions.