Ronceverte, WV 24902 Frost Dates
24902, near Ronceverte, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ronceverte in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Ronceverte's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/03 isn't a guarantee
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ronceverte against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate Ronceverte's last and first frost, putting it 33,030 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 792 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24902: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ronceverte's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ronceverte can differ from the 24902 normal.