Pratt, WV 25132 Frost Dates
Pratt, WV: when does the frost end?
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 Pratt, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Pratt's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pratt's last frost
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.
Pratt against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Pratt's last and first frost, putting it 15,379 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 25 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25132's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pratt can differ from the 25132 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pratt's frost date answer different questions.