Thurmond, WV 25879 Frost Dates
Thurmond, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Thurmond, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Thurmond's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 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.
Thurmond against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Thurmond places 25,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 562 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25879's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Thurmond can differ from the 25879 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Thurmond's frost date answer different questions.