Fort Gay, WV 25514 Frost Dates
Fort Gay, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Gay 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Fort Gay's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fort Gay's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Gay against the rest of the dataset
Fort Gay's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,754 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 152 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25514's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Fort Gay's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Gay's dates instead of trusting one.