Sand Fork, WV 26384 Frost Dates
Sand Fork, WV: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Sand Fork, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Sand Fork's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Sand Fork against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Sand Fork places 25,089 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 521 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26384's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sand Fork's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sand Fork's dates instead of trusting one.