Wayne, WV 25535 Frost Dates
25535, near Wayne, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Wayne, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wayne'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.
Why 04/14 isn't a guarantee
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wayne against the rest of the dataset
Wayne's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,298 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 163 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25535: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wayne can differ from the 25535 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Wayne's frost date answer different questions.