Parkersburg, WV 26150 Frost Dates
Parkersburg, WV: when does the frost end?
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
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.
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 18,631 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 146 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26150's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Parkersburg can differ from the 26150 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Parkersburg's frost date answer different questions.