Granville, WV 26546 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Granville, WV, ZIP 26546
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 180 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Granville 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 Granville compares
About 180 days separate Granville's last and first frost, putting it 24,925 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 482 of 885.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Granville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Granville's dates instead of trusting one.