Burnsville, WV 26412 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Burnsville, WV, ZIP 26412
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 179 frost-free days later.
Burnsville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Burnsville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Burnsville compares
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Burnsville places 25,468 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 552 of 885.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Burnsville can differ from the 26412 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Burnsville's frost date answer different questions.