Whitesville, WV 25140 Frost Dates
25140, near Whitesville, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Whitesville 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
Whitesville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whitesville against the rest of the dataset
Whitesville's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,807 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 830 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25140: the frost range, on how to read the range around Whitesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Whitesville can differ from the 25140 normal.