Sophia, WV 25902 Frost Dates
25902, near Sophia, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
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 Sophia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sophia's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sophia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Sophia places 25,816 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 587 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25902: 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 25902 normal.