Point Pleasant, WV 25550 Frost Dates
25550, near Point Pleasant, WV: the frost window
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Point Pleasant in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Point Pleasant'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 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 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Point Pleasant against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Point Pleasant's last and first frost, putting it 27,887 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 631 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25550: local microclimates, on what one yard in Point Pleasant can differ from the 25550 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Point Pleasant's frost date answer different questions.