West Union, WV 26436 Frost Dates
26436, near West Union, WV: the frost window
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Union 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
West Union'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.
The actual range around West Union's last frost
04/28 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 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Union against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, West Union places 26,589 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 598 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26436: local microclimates, on what one yard in West Union can differ from the 26436 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and West Union's frost date answer different questions.