Newburg, WV 26374 Frost Dates
26374, near Newburg, WV: the frost window
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newburg in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Newburg'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
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 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.
Newburg against the rest of the dataset
About 178 days separate Newburg's last and first frost, putting it 25,915 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 592 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26374: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newburg can differ from the 26374 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Newburg's frost date answer different questions.