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Burnsville, WV 26615 Frost Dates

26615, near Burnsville, WV: the frost window

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, 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 Burnsville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Burnsville'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 04/25 isn't a guarantee

04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Burnsville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 180 frost-free days, Burnsville places 25,040 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 519 of 885.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 26615: the frost range, on how to read the range around Burnsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Burnsville can differ from the 26615 normal.