Blacksville, WV 15316 Frost Dates
Blacksville, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Blacksville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Blacksville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blacksville against the rest of the dataset
Blacksville's growing season runs about 158 days, ranking 33,168 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 805 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15316's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Blacksville can differ from the 15316 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Blacksville's frost date answer different questions.