Gilbert, WV 25651 Frost Dates
Gilbert, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Gilbert's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
Gilbert's growing season runs about 194 days, ranking 19,611 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 194 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25651's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gilbert can differ from the 25651 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Gilbert's frost date answer different questions.