Marlinton, WV 24484 Frost Dates
24484, near Marlinton, WV: the frost window
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Marlinton in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Marlinton's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Marlinton's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Marlinton against the rest of the dataset
About 149 days separate Marlinton's last and first frost, putting it 35,538 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 866 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24484: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Marlinton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Marlinton's dates instead of trusting one.