Harrisville, WV 26362 Frost Dates
Harrisville, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Harrisville 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 7 weeks until Harrisville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Harrisville's last frost
04/26 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 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Harrisville against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Harrisville's last and first frost, putting it 27,960 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 637 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26362's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Harrisville can differ from the 26362 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Harrisville's frost date answer different questions.