Triadelphia, WV 26036 Frost Dates
26036, near Triadelphia, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Triadelphia 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
Triadelphia's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Triadelphia's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Triadelphia against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Triadelphia's last and first frost, putting it 20,504 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 296 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26036: local microclimates, on what one yard in Triadelphia can differ from the 26036 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Triadelphia's frost date answer different questions.