Meadow Bridge, WV 25831 Frost Dates
25831, near Meadow Bridge, WV: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Meadow Bridge in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Meadow Bridge's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meadow Bridge against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Meadow Bridge's last and first frost, putting it 25,480 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 555 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25831: the frost range, on how to read the range around Meadow Bridge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Meadow Bridge can differ from the 25831 normal.