Clay, WV 25141 Frost Dates
Clay, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Clay sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Clay's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Clay's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clay against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Clay places 28,801 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 690 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25141's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Clay can differ from the 25141 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Clay's frost date answer different questions.