Sophia, WV 25843 Frost Dates
25843, near Sophia, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sophia 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
Sophia's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Sophia's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sophia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Sophia places 33,717 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 825 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25843: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sophia's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sophia can differ from the 25843 normal.