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Kermit, WV 25674 Frost Dates

25674, near Kermit, WV: the frost window

Zone 7a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.

Kermit 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

Kermit'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 Kermit's last frost

04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 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.

Kermit against the rest of the dataset

Kermit's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,821 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 158 of 885.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 25674: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Kermit's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Kermit's dates instead of trusting one.