Elk Garden, WV 26743 Frost Dates
Elk Garden, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 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 Elk Garden, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Elk Garden's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
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 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elk Garden against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Elk Garden places 30,205 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 729 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26743's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Elk Garden's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Elk Garden's dates instead of trusting one.