Romney, WV 26763 Frost Dates
Romney, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Romney sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 7 weeks until Romney's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Romney's last frost
04/26 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 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Romney against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Romney places 28,354 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 673 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26763's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Romney can differ from the 26763 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Romney's frost date answer different questions.