Bayard, WV 26720 Frost Dates
Bayard, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bayard in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 5 weeks until Bayard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bayard's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bayard against the rest of the dataset
About 140 days separate Bayard's last and first frost, putting it 37,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 879 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26720's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Bayard's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bayard's dates instead of trusting one.