Chapmanville, WV 25203 Frost Dates
25203, near Chapmanville, WV: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
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 Chapmanville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Chapmanville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chapmanville against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Chapmanville's last and first frost, putting it 15,687 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 59 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25203: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Chapmanville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Chapmanville's dates instead of trusting one.