Mullens, WV 25915 Frost Dates
Mullens, WV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Mullens 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 Mullens's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mullens's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mullens against the rest of the dataset
Mullens's growing season runs about 178 days, ranking 25,788 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 582 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 25915's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mullens's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mullens can differ from the 25915 normal.