Buckhannon, WV 26219 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Buckhannon, WV?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 175 frost-free days later.
Buckhannon 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Buckhannon before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Buckhannon's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Buckhannon compares
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Buckhannon places 26,880 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 603 of 885.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Buckhannon's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Buckhannon's dates instead of trusting one.