Barboursville, WV 25713 Frost Dates
Barboursville, WV: when does the frost end?
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
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
About 205 days separate Barboursville's last and first frost, putting it 16,254 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 93 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25713'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.