Winfield, WV 25168 Frost Dates
Winfield, 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 10/16, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Winfield 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Winfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Winfield's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Winfield places 29,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 701 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25168's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Winfield can differ from the 25168 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Winfield's frost date answer different questions.