Gilbert, WV 24869 Frost Dates
Gilbert, WV: when does the frost end?
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.
Gilbert 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 9 weeks until Gilbert's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gilbert'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.
Gilbert against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Gilbert places 19,607 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 190 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24869's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gilbert's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gilbert can differ from the 24869 normal.