Ceredo, WV 25704 Frost Dates
25704, near Ceredo, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 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 Ceredo, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ceredo'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ceredo against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Ceredo places 17,838 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 130 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25704: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ceredo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ceredo can differ from the 25704 normal.