Clay, WV 25164 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Clay, WV, ZIP 25164
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 209 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Clay has about 10 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 Clay's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Clay compares
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Clay places 15,400 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 30 of 885.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Clay's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Clay can differ from the 25164 normal.