Frost dates for Beckley Va Hospital, West Virginia
Half of years have their last spring frost by May 6 — but 1 year in 10 still frosts after May 23.
Every other site gives you one date. A frost date is not a date: it is a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station, and planting to the median means losing the crop in half of years. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
- Frost this late in 1 year in 10
- May 23
- 1 year in 5
- May 18
- 3 years in 10
- May 14
- 2 years in 5
- May 10
- Half of years (the median)
- May 6
First fall freeze
- Freeze this early in 1 year in 10
- September 28
- 1 year in 5
- October 2
- 3 years in 10
- October 5
- 2 years in 5
- October 7
- Half of years (the median)
- October 10
- Growing season
- about 156 days
- Hardiness zones nearby
- 6b, 7a
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, station Beckley Va Hospital (USC00460580), at 37.76, -81.19. These are that station's own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground — the planner resolves the nearest station to your own ZIP and lowers its confidence with distance, rather than presenting one number as if it were measured in your yard.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred metres away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
25007, 25008, 25044, 25062, 25174, 25801, 25810, 25811, 25813, 25817, 25818, 25820, 25823, 25825, 25827, 25832, 25836, 25839, 25841, 25843, 25844, 25846, 25849, 25853, 25855, 25857, 25864, 25865, 25871, 25873, 25878, 25879, 25880, 25901, 25902, 25904, 25906, 25907, 25908, 25911, 25915, 25917, 25918, 25920, 25921, 25928, 25932, 25936, 25969, 25978, 25989.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations, and how their last-frost dates compare — the frost gradient across your area, which no single station shows.
- Oceana 2 Se, WV — last frost by April 22
- London Locks, WV — last frost by April 7
- Mt Nebo 1 S, WV — last frost by May 5
- Bluefield, WV — last frost by April 30
- Charleston Wfo, WV — last frost by April 23
- Richlands, VA — last frost by April 27
Other stations in West Virginia.
- Williamson Hcn, WV — last frost by April 8
- Hamlin, WV — last frost by April 23
- Gassaway, WV — last frost by April 20
- Spencer Hcn, WV — last frost by April 30
- Clarksburg Benedum Ap, WV — last frost by April 18
- Burton, WV — last frost by May 4
- Lake Lynn, WV — last frost by April 25
- Wheeling Ohio Co Ap, WV — last frost by April 23