Mannington, WV 26582 Frost Dates
Mannington, WV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
Mannington sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Mannington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mannington's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mannington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 159 frost-free days, Mannington places 32,677 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 767 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26582's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mannington can differ from the 26582 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Mannington's frost date answer different questions.