Spencer, WV 25276 Frost Dates
25276, near Spencer, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Spencer sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Spencer's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Spencer's last frost
04/30 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 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Spencer against the rest of the dataset
Spencer's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,477 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 705 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25276: local microclimates, on what one yard in Spencer can differ from the 25276 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Spencer's frost date answer different questions.