Gauley Bridge, WV 25059 Frost Dates
25059, near Gauley Bridge, WV: the frost window
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.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Gauley Bridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gauley Bridge's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Gauley Bridge'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.
Gauley Bridge against the rest of the dataset
Gauley Bridge's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,370 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 21 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25059: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gauley Bridge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gauley Bridge can differ from the 25059 normal.