Ravenswood, WV 45770 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Ravenswood, WV, ZIP 45770
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 165 frost-free days later.
Ravenswood 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Ravenswood has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Ravenswood's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ravenswood compares
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Ravenswood places 30,572 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 733 of 885.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Ravenswood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Ravenswood can differ from the 45770 normal.