Sylvester, WV 25028 Frost Dates
Sylvester, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Sylvester 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Sylvester's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sylvester against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Sylvester places 15,770 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 84 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25028's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sylvester can differ from the 25028 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Sylvester's frost date answer different questions.