Flatwoods, WV 26627 Frost Dates
26627, near Flatwoods, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. 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
Flatwoods'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
04/22 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
About 187 days separate Flatwoods's last and first frost, putting it 22,605 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 349 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26627: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Flatwoods's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Flatwoods's dates instead of trusting one.