Philippi, WV 26238 Frost Dates
Philippi, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Philippi 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Philippi's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Philippi's last frost
04/29 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 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Philippi against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Philippi places 27,915 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 635 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26238's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Philippi's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Philippi's dates instead of trusting one.