Man, WV 25650 Frost Dates
Man, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 194 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Man's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee
04/15 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 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Man against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Man places 19,564 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 177 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25650's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Man's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Man can differ from the 25650 normal.