Wellsburg, WV 26058 Frost Dates
26058, near Wellsburg, WV: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 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 Wellsburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wellsburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wellsburg against the rest of the dataset
Wellsburg's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 26,965 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 610 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26058: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Wellsburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wellsburg's dates instead of trusting one.