Capon Bridge, WV 26865 Frost Dates
26865, near Capon Bridge, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. 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 Capon Bridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Capon Bridge's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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.
Capon Bridge against the rest of the dataset
Capon Bridge's growing season runs about 159 days, ranking 32,746 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 774 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26865: the frost range, on how to read the range around Capon Bridge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Capon Bridge can differ from the 26865 normal.