Valley Grove, WV 15376 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Valley Grove, WV, ZIP 15376
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 185 frost-free days later.
Valley Grove 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 Valley Grove has about 8 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.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Valley Grove compares
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Valley Grove places 23,323 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 374 of 885.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Valley Grove's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Valley Grove's dates instead of trusting one.