Barboursville, WV 25773 Frost Dates
25773, 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 16,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 113 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25773: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Barboursville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Barboursville's dates instead of trusting one.