Pineville, WV 25876 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.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Pineville, not a forecast for this year.
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
About 193 days separate Pineville's last and first frost, putting it 20,024 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 228 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25876'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.