Barboursville, WV 25708 Frost Dates
Barboursville, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 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 Barboursville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Barboursville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Barboursville's last frost
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 16,250 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 89 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25708's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Barboursville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Barboursville's dates instead of trusting one.