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Lumberport, WV 26404 Frost Dates

Lumberport, WV: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 181 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 Lumberport, not a forecast for this year.

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

04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Lumberport against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 181 frost-free days, Lumberport places 24,666 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 442 of 885.

Learn more

Before leaning on 26404's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lumberport can differ from the 26404 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Lumberport's frost date answer different questions.