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Poca, WV 25159 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Poca, WV, ZIP 25159

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 169 frost-free days later.

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 Poca, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7a around Poca has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Poca's last frost

04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Poca compares

At roughly 169 frost-free days, Poca places 29,519 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 706 of 885.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Poca's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Poca can differ from the 25159 normal.