Mullens, WV 24714 Frost Dates
Mullens, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mullens in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Mullens's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mullens's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mullens against the rest of the dataset
About 178 days separate Mullens's last and first frost, putting it 25,780 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 574 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24714's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mullens's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mullens can differ from the 24714 normal.