Wardensville, WV 26851 Frost Dates
Wardensville, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 159 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 Wardensville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Wardensville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Wardensville against the rest of the dataset
Wardensville's growing season runs about 159 days, ranking 32,769 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 780 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26851's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wardensville can differ from the 26851 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wardensville's frost date answer different questions.