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Auburn, WV 26321 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Auburn, WV, ZIP 26321

Zone 6b

Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 180 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Auburn in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Auburn has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Auburn's last frost

04/25 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 Auburn compares

At roughly 180 frost-free days, Auburn places 25,117 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 525 of 885.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Auburn's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Auburn can differ from the 26321 normal.