Mount Hope, WV 25818 Frost Dates
Mount Hope, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Mount Hope sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 8 weeks until Mount Hope's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Hope against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Mount Hope places 24,935 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 484 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25818's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Mount Hope's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Hope's dates instead of trusting one.