Hinton, WV 25951 Frost Dates
25951, near Hinton, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Hinton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hinton's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hinton against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Hinton's last and first frost, putting it 17,808 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 126 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25951: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Hinton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hinton's dates instead of trusting one.