Fairmont, WV 26554 Frost Dates
26554, near Fairmont, WV: the frost window
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fairmont in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Fairmont'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.
The actual range around Fairmont's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairmont against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Fairmont places 20,195 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 244 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26554: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fairmont can differ from the 26554 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Fairmont's frost date answer different questions.