Lester, WV 25932 Frost Dates
Lester, WV: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Lester, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Lester's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lester'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.
Lester against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Lester places 33,816 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 839 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25932's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lester can differ from the 25932 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Lester's frost date answer different questions.