Parkersburg, WV 26102 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Parkersburg, WV, ZIP 26102
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 197 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Parkersburg has about 9 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 Parkersburg's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Parkersburg compares
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Parkersburg places 18,624 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 139 of 885.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Parkersburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Parkersburg can differ from the 26102 normal.