Vienna, WV 45712 Frost Dates
45712, near Vienna, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 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 Vienna, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Vienna'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 Vienna's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vienna against the rest of the dataset
Vienna's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,650 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 148 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45712: the frost range, on how to read the range around Vienna's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Vienna can differ from the 45712 normal.