Anawalt, WV 24848 Frost Dates
Anawalt, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Anawalt sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Anawalt's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Anawalt against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Anawalt places 29,804 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 719 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24848's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Anawalt can differ from the 24848 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Anawalt's frost date answer different questions.