Granville, WV 26534 Frost Dates
26534, near Granville, WV: the frost window
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. 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 Granville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Granville'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.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
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.
Granville against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Granville's last and first frost, putting it 24,923 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 480 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26534: local microclimates, on what one yard in Granville can differ from the 26534 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Granville's frost date answer different questions.