Burnsville, WV 26631 Frost Dates
Burnsville, WV: when does the frost end?
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.
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
With roughly 9 weeks until Burnsville'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.
Burnsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Burnsville places 22,578 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 343 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26631's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Burnsville can differ from the 26631 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Burnsville's frost date answer different questions.