Middlebourne, WV 26149 Frost Dates
Middlebourne, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
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 Middlebourne, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Middlebourne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Middlebourne's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Middlebourne against the rest of the dataset
Middlebourne's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,122 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 725 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26149's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Middlebourne's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Middlebourne can differ from the 26149 normal.