Danville, WV 25572 Frost Dates
25572, near Danville, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Danville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Danville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Danville against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Danville's last and first frost, putting it 25,005 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 507 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25572: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Danville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Danville's dates instead of trusting one.