Hillsboro, WV 24946 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hillsboro, WV, ZIP 24946
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 161 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hillsboro in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Hillsboro has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hillsboro's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hillsboro compares
At roughly 161 frost-free days, Hillsboro places 32,173 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 750 of 885.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Hillsboro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Hillsboro can differ from the 24946 normal.