Lewisburg, WV 24916 Frost Dates
Lewisburg, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 158 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 Lewisburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Lewisburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lewisburg's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lewisburg against the rest of the dataset
Lewisburg's growing season runs about 158 days, ranking 32,979 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 790 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24916's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lewisburg can differ from the 24916 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Lewisburg's frost date answer different questions.