Gauley Bridge, WV 25125 Frost Dates
25125, near Gauley Bridge, WV: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 209 days separate Gauley Bridge's last and first frost, putting it 15,371 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 22 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25125: 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 25125 normal.