Pine Grove, WV 26167 Frost Dates
Pine Grove, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pine Grove 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 7 weeks until Pine Grove'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
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.
Pine Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Pine Grove places 30,172 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 728 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26167's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pine Grove's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pine Grove's dates instead of trusting one.