Sistersville, WV 26175 Frost Dates
26175, near Sistersville, 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 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Sistersville 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
Sistersville'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.
Why 05/01 isn't a guarantee
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.
Sistersville against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Sistersville's last and first frost, putting it 30,069 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 723 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26175: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sistersville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sistersville can differ from the 26175 normal.