Belle, WV 25315 Frost Dates
Belle, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Belle in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Belle's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Belle's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belle against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Belle places 20,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 289 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25315's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Belle's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Belle can differ from the 25315 normal.