Camden-on-Gauley, WV 26691 Frost Dates
Camden-on-Gauley, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 171 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 Camden-on-Gauley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Camden-on-Gauley'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camden-on-Gauley against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Camden-on-Gauley's last and first frost, putting it 28,845 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 699 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26691's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Camden-on-Gauley's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Camden-on-Gauley can differ from the 26691 normal.