Capon Bridge, WV 26711 Frost Dates
Capon Bridge, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
Capon Bridge sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 6 weeks until Capon Bridge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Capon Bridge's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Capon Bridge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 159 frost-free days, Capon Bridge places 32,745 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 773 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26711's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Capon Bridge can differ from the 26711 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Capon Bridge's frost date answer different questions.