Harman, WV 26296 Frost Dates
26296, near Harman, WV: the frost window
Around 05/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 260 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 139 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Harman in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Harman's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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 Harman's last frost
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Harman against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 139 frost-free days, Harman places 37,304 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 885 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26296: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Harman's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Harman's dates instead of trusting one.