Anawalt, WV 24871 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Anawalt in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
The actual range around Anawalt's last frost
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
Anawalt's growing season runs about 168 days, ranking 29,805 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 720 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24871's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Anawalt's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Anawalt's dates instead of trusting one.