Oak Hill, WV 25901 Frost Dates
25901, near Oak Hill, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Oak Hill 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
Oak Hill'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.
Oak Hill against the rest of the dataset
Oak Hill's growing season runs about 179 days, ranking 25,262 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 532 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25901: local microclimates, on what one yard in Oak Hill can differ from the 25901 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Oak Hill's frost date answer different questions.