Capon Bridge, WV 26704 Frost Dates
26704, near Capon Bridge, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Capon Bridge 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
Capon Bridge's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Capon Bridge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Capon Bridge places 28,460 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 675 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26704: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Capon Bridge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Capon Bridge's dates instead of trusting one.