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Cameron, WV 15310 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Cameron, WV, ZIP 15310

Zone 6a

Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 158 frost-free days later.

Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Cameron, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6a around Cameron has about 6 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.

How much risk comes with planting early here

05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Cameron compares

At roughly 158 frost-free days, Cameron places 33,085 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 794 of 885.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Cameron's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Cameron's dates instead of trusting one.