Rivesville, WV 26504 Frost Dates
26504, near Rivesville, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, 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 Rivesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rivesville'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 Rivesville's last frost
04/26 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 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rivesville against the rest of the dataset
Rivesville's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 24,983 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 499 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26504: the frost range, on how to read the range around Rivesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Rivesville can differ from the 26504 normal.