Durbin, WV 24927 Frost Dates
24927, near Durbin, WV: the frost window
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Durbin in Zone 6a (-10 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
Durbin'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.
The actual range around Durbin's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Durbin against the rest of the dataset
About 147 days separate Durbin's last and first frost, putting it 35,983 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 875 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24927: local microclimates, on what one yard in Durbin can differ from the 24927 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Durbin's frost date answer different questions.