Auburn, WV 26342 Frost Dates
26342, near Auburn, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Auburn 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
Auburn'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Auburn against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Auburn's last and first frost, putting it 25,119 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 527 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26342: local microclimates, on what one yard in Auburn can differ from the 26342 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Auburn's frost date answer different questions.