Weirton, WV 26062 Frost Dates
Weirton, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Weirton 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 8 weeks until Weirton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Weirton's last frost
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.
Weirton against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Weirton's last and first frost, putting it 26,780 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 600 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26062's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Weirton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Weirton can differ from the 26062 normal.