Barboursville, WV 25728 Frost Dates
25728, 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.
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 16,269 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 108 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25728: the frost range, on how to read the range around Barboursville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Barboursville can differ from the 25728 normal.