Camden-on-Gauley, WV 26208 Frost Dates
26208, near Camden-on-Gauley, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Camden-on-Gauley 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
Camden-on-Gauley'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 Camden-on-Gauley's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camden-on-Gauley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Camden-on-Gauley places 28,843 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 697 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26208: the frost range, on how to read the range around Camden-on-Gauley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Camden-on-Gauley can differ from the 26208 normal.