Man, WV 25638 Frost Dates
25638, near Man, WV: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Man 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
Man'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.
The actual range around Man's last frost
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.
Man against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Man's last and first frost, putting it 15,706 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 67 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25638: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Man's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Man's dates instead of trusting one.