Marmet, WV 25324 Frost Dates
25324, near Marmet, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Marmet 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
Marmet's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Marmet's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Marmet against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Marmet places 20,414 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 255 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25324: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Marmet's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Marmet's dates instead of trusting one.