Reedy, WV 26160 Frost Dates
26160, near Reedy, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 165 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 Reedy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Reedy's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Reedy's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 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.
Reedy against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Reedy places 30,767 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 746 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26160: local microclimates, on what one yard in Reedy can differ from the 26160 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Reedy's frost date answer different questions.