Princeton, WV 24738 Frost Dates
24738, near Princeton, WV: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Princeton 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Princeton'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
04/21 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
Princeton's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,129 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 393 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24738: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Princeton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Princeton's dates instead of trusting one.