Flatwoods, WV 26621 Frost Dates
Flatwoods, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Flatwoods 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Flatwoods's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Flatwoods against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Flatwoods places 22,604 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 348 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26621's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Flatwoods's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Flatwoods can differ from the 26621 normal.