Piedmont, WV 26750 Frost Dates
Piedmont, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Piedmont 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 7 weeks until Piedmont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Piedmont's last frost
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.
Piedmont against the rest of the dataset
Piedmont's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,118 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 724 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26750's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Piedmont can differ from the 26750 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Piedmont's frost date answer different questions.