Farmington, WV 26560 Frost Dates
26560, near Farmington, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 192 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 Farmington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Farmington'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Farmington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Farmington places 20,538 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 299 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26560: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Farmington's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Farmington's dates instead of trusting one.