Meadow Bridge, WV 25985 Frost Dates
25985, near Meadow Bridge, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Meadow Bridge 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
Meadow Bridge's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Meadow Bridge's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meadow Bridge against the rest of the dataset
Meadow Bridge's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,895 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 136 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25985: local microclimates, on what one yard in Meadow Bridge can differ from the 25985 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Meadow Bridge's frost date answer different questions.