Lumberport, WV 26361 Frost Dates
Lumberport, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Lumberport 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 Lumberport's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lumberport's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lumberport against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Lumberport's last and first frost, putting it 22,136 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 328 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26361's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lumberport's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lumberport can differ from the 26361 normal.