Thurmond, WV 25936 Frost Dates
25936, near Thurmond, WV: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. 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
Thurmond's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Thurmond's last frost
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
Thurmond's growing season runs about 179 days, ranking 25,541 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 563 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25936: the frost range, on how to read the range around Thurmond's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Thurmond can differ from the 25936 normal.