Blacksville, WV 15362 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Blacksville, WV, ZIP 15362
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 164 frost-free days later.
Blacksville 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 Blacksville 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 Blacksville's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Blacksville compares
About 164 days separate Blacksville's last and first frost, putting it 31,239 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 747 of 885.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Blacksville can differ from the 15362 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Blacksville's frost date answer different questions.