Rivesville, WV 26588 Frost Dates
26588, near Rivesville, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Rivesville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rivesville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Rivesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Rivesville places 20,491 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 294 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26588: local microclimates, on what one yard in Rivesville can differ from the 26588 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Rivesville's frost date answer different questions.