Gassaway, WV 25063 Frost Dates
Gassaway, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gassaway in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Gassaway's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gassaway's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gassaway against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Gassaway's last and first frost, putting it 28,757 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 682 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25063's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gassaway's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gassaway can differ from the 25063 normal.