Mabscott, WV 25927 Frost Dates
25927, near Mabscott, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 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 Mabscott, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mabscott's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mabscott against the rest of the dataset
Mabscott's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,701 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 820 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25927: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mabscott can differ from the 25927 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Mabscott's frost date answer different questions.