Paw Paw, WV 25444 Frost Dates
25444, near Paw Paw, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Paw Paw 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
Paw Paw'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 Paw Paw's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 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.
Paw Paw against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Paw Paw's last and first frost, putting it 25,037 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 517 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25444: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Paw Paw's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Paw Paw's dates instead of trusting one.