Fayetteville, WV 25837 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Fayetteville, WV?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 181 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Fayetteville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Fayetteville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Fayetteville's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fayetteville compares
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Fayetteville places 24,546 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 428 of 885.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Fayetteville can differ from the 25837 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Fayetteville's frost date answer different questions.