Sophia, WV 25878 Frost Dates
Sophia, WV: when does the frost end?
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.
Sophia 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Sophia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
Sophia's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,718 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 826 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25878's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sophia can differ from the 25878 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sophia's frost date answer different questions.