Buffalo, WV 25082 Frost Dates
Buffalo, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Buffalo 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 7 weeks until Buffalo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Buffalo's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buffalo against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Buffalo's last and first frost, putting it 27,977 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 642 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25082's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Buffalo's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Buffalo's dates instead of trusting one.