FrostDateCheck

Wayne, WV 25555 Frost Dates

Wayne, WV: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

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.

Wayne 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 Wayne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

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

At roughly 195 frost-free days, Wayne places 19,299 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 164 of 885.

Learn more

Before leaning on 25555's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wayne's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wayne can differ from the 25555 normal.