Barboursville, WV 25504 Frost Dates
25504, near Barboursville, 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 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Barboursville 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
Barboursville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barboursville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Barboursville places 16,246 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 85 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25504: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barboursville can differ from the 25504 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Barboursville's frost date answer different questions.