Barboursville, WV 25706 Frost Dates
25706, near Barboursville, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Barboursville 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
Barboursville'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
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barboursville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Barboursville places 16,248 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 87 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25706: the frost range, on how to read the range around Barboursville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Barboursville can differ from the 25706 normal.