Madison, WV 25114 Frost Dates
25114, near Madison, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 208 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 Madison, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Madison's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Madison against the rest of the dataset
Madison's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,631 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 43 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25114: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Madison's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Madison's dates instead of trusting one.