Mitchell Heights, WV 25121 Frost Dates
25121, near Mitchell Heights, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Mitchell Heights sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mitchell Heights's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mitchell Heights against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Mitchell Heights's last and first frost, putting it 15,746 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 79 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25121: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mitchell Heights can differ from the 25121 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Mitchell Heights's frost date answer different questions.