Barboursville, WV 25727 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Barboursville, WV, ZIP 25727
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 205 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Barboursville has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Barboursville's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Barboursville compares
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Barboursville places 16,268 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 107 of 885.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Barboursville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Barboursville's dates instead of trusting one.