FrostDateCheck

Barboursville, WV 25726 Frost Dates

Barboursville, WV: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. 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 16,267 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 106 of 885.

Learn more

Before leaning on 25726's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Barboursville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Barboursville can differ from the 25726 normal.