Newburg, WV 26440 Frost Dates
Newburg, WV: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Newburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Newburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newburg's last frost
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
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Newburg places 25,916 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 593 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26440's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Newburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Newburg can differ from the 26440 normal.