Morgantown, WV 26506 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Morgantown, WV, ZIP 26506
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 180 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Morgantown in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Morgantown 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.
The actual range around Morgantown's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Morgantown compares
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Morgantown places 24,785 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 454 of 885.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Morgantown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Morgantown's dates instead of trusting one.