Danville, WV 25169 Frost Dates
25169, near Danville, WV: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Danville 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
Danville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Danville against the rest of the dataset
Danville's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 25,000 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 502 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25169: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Danville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Danville's dates instead of trusting one.