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Marmet, WV 25364 Frost Dates

25364, near Marmet, WV: the frost window

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. 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

About 192 days separate Marmet's last and first frost, putting it 20,437 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 278 of 885.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 25364: 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.