Oceana, WV 24870 Frost Dates
24870, near Oceana, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Oceana 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
Oceana'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.
The actual range around Oceana'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.
Oceana against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Oceana places 19,980 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 210 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24870: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Oceana's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Oceana's dates instead of trusting one.