Carpendale, WV 26719 Frost Dates
Carpendale, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Carpendale 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 8 weeks until Carpendale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Carpendale's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carpendale against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Carpendale's last and first frost, putting it 21,249 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 309 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26719's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Carpendale's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Carpendale's dates instead of trusting one.