Parkersburg, WV 26101 Frost Dates
26101, near Parkersburg, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Parkersburg 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
Parkersburg'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 Parkersburg's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Parkersburg against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Parkersburg's last and first frost, putting it 18,623 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 138 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26101: local microclimates, on what one yard in Parkersburg can differ from the 26101 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Parkersburg's frost date answer different questions.