Lester, WV 25844 Frost Dates
25844, near Lester, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Lester sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Lester'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.
Why 05/06 isn't a guarantee
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.
Lester against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Lester places 33,813 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 836 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25844: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lester's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lester can differ from the 25844 normal.