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Windsor Heights, WV 26075 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Windsor Heights, WV, ZIP 26075

Zone 6b

Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 185 frost-free days later.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Windsor Heights, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Windsor Heights has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Windsor Heights's last frost

04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Windsor Heights compares

About 185 days separate Windsor Heights's last and first frost, putting it 23,307 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 373 of 885.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Windsor Heights's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Windsor Heights's dates instead of trusting one.