Barboursville, WV 25711 Frost Dates
25711, near Barboursville, WV: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Barboursville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
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
About 205 days separate Barboursville's last and first frost, putting it 16,252 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 91 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25711: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barboursville can differ from the 25711 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Barboursville's frost date answer different questions.