Pineville, WV 24880 Frost Dates
Pineville, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Pineville sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Pineville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pineville against the rest of the dataset
Pineville's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 20,020 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 224 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24880's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pineville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one.