FrostDateCheck

Burnsville, WV 26619 Frost Dates

26619, near Burnsville, WV: the frost window

Zone 6b

Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Burnsville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Burnsville'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.

The actual range around Burnsville's last frost

04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Burnsville against the rest of the dataset

About 187 days separate Burnsville's last and first frost, putting it 22,577 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 342 of 885.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 26619: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Burnsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Burnsville's dates instead of trusting one.