Wellsburg, WV 26070 Frost Dates
Wellsburg, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wellsburg in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Wellsburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wellsburg's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wellsburg against the rest of the dataset
Wellsburg's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,175 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 368 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26070's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wellsburg's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wellsburg's dates instead of trusting one.