East Bank, WV 25054 Frost Dates
East Bank, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
East Bank 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 10 weeks until East Bank's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around East Bank's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Bank against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate East Bank's last and first frost, putting it 15,343 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 9 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25054's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in East Bank can differ from the 25054 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and East Bank's frost date answer different questions.