Marmet, WV 25360 Frost Dates
25360, near Marmet, WV: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 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 Marmet, not a forecast for this year.
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 20,434 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 275 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25360: the frost range, on how to read the range around Marmet's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Marmet can differ from the 25360 normal.