Iaeger, WV 24872 Frost Dates
Iaeger, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Iaeger 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 9 weeks until Iaeger's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Iaeger'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.
Iaeger against the rest of the dataset
Iaeger's growing season runs about 194 days, ranking 19,618 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 198 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24872's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Iaeger can differ from the 24872 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Iaeger's frost date answer different questions.