Addison (Webster Springs), WV 26282 Frost Dates
26282, near Addison (Webster Springs), WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Addison (Webster Springs) 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
Addison (Webster Springs)'s growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Addison (Webster Springs) against the rest of the dataset
Addison (Webster Springs)'s growing season runs about 150 days, ranking 35,363 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 861 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26282: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Addison (Webster Springs)'s frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Addison (Webster Springs)'s dates instead of trusting one.