Parkersburg, WV 26121 Frost Dates
Parkersburg, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Parkersburg 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 9 weeks until Parkersburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Parkersburg places 18,629 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 144 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26121's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Parkersburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Parkersburg can differ from the 26121 normal.