Brandonville, WV 15439 Frost Dates
15439, near Brandonville, WV: the frost window
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Brandonville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Brandonville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brandonville against the rest of the dataset
Brandonville's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 27,285 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 626 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15439: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brandonville can differ from the 15439 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Brandonville's frost date answer different questions.