Alderson, WV 24981 Frost Dates
24981, near Alderson, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Alderson 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
Alderson's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Alderson against the rest of the dataset
Alderson's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,002 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 646 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24981: the frost range, on how to read the range around Alderson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Alderson can differ from the 24981 normal.