Brandonville, WV 15440 Frost Dates
15440, near Brandonville, WV: the frost window
Around 05/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 254 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
Brandonville sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Brandonville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/09 isn't a guarantee
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brandonville against the rest of the dataset
About 155 days separate Brandonville's last and first frost, putting it 34,176 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 845 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15440: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Brandonville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Brandonville's dates instead of trusting one.