Gilbert, WV 25608 Frost Dates
25608, near Gilbert, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 194 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 Gilbert, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gilbert's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Gilbert's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 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.
Gilbert against the rest of the dataset
About 194 days separate Gilbert's last and first frost, putting it 19,609 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 192 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25608: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gilbert's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gilbert can differ from the 25608 normal.