Henderson, WV 25106 Frost Dates
Henderson, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Henderson 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Henderson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Henderson's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Henderson against the rest of the dataset
Henderson's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,082 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 660 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25106's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Henderson's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Henderson can differ from the 25106 normal.