Whitesville, WV 25062 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Whitesville, WV?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/10, about 156 frost-free days later.
Whitesville 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Whitesville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Whitesville's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Whitesville compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Whitesville places 33,806 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 829 of 885.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Whitesville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Whitesville's dates instead of trusting one.