Barboursville, WV 25724 Frost Dates
25724, 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.
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
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.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
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
Barboursville's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,265 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 104 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25724: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barboursville can differ from the 25724 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Barboursville's frost date answer different questions.