Pleasant Valley, WV 26578 Frost Dates
Pleasant Valley, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 192 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 Pleasant Valley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Pleasant Valley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pleasant Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Pleasant Valley's last and first frost, putting it 20,317 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 246 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26578's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pleasant Valley can differ from the 26578 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pleasant Valley's frost date answer different questions.