Huntington, WV 25755 Frost Dates
Huntington, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Huntington 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 Huntington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Huntington's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Huntington against the rest of the dataset
Huntington's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,715 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 123 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25755's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Huntington's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Huntington's dates instead of trusting one.