Womelsdorf (Coalton), WV 26267 Frost Dates
26267, near Womelsdorf (Coalton), WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Womelsdorf (Coalton) sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Womelsdorf (Coalton)'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.
Womelsdorf (Coalton) against the rest of the dataset
Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,090 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 662 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26267: local microclimates, on what one yard in Womelsdorf (Coalton) can differ from the 26267 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s frost date answer different questions.