St. Albans, WV 25202 Frost Dates
25202, near St. Albans, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts St. Albans in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
St. Albans'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.
The actual range around St. Albans's last frost
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.
St. Albans against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate St. Albans's last and first frost, putting it 24,820 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 461 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25202: local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Albans can differ from the 25202 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and St. Albans's frost date answer different questions.