Hartford City, WV 25247 Frost Dates
Hartford City, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hartford City in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Hartford City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hartford City's last frost
04/28 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 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hartford City against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Hartford City's last and first frost, putting it 28,051 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 652 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25247's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hartford City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hartford City can differ from the 25247 normal.