Princeton, WV 24729 Frost Dates
Princeton, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 182 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 Princeton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Princeton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Princeton's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Princeton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Princeton places 24,126 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 390 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24729's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Princeton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Princeton can differ from the 24729 normal.