Smithers, WV 25152 Frost Dates
Smithers, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Smithers, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Smithers's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Smithers against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Smithers's last and first frost, putting it 25,421 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 547 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25152's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Smithers's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Smithers can differ from the 25152 normal.