New Martinsville, WV 26155 Frost Dates
26155, near New Martinsville, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 182 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 New Martinsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
New Martinsville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 New Martinsville's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Martinsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, New Martinsville places 24,137 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 396 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26155: the frost range, on how to read the range around New Martinsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in New Martinsville can differ from the 26155 normal.