Sutton, WV 26601 Frost Dates
26601, near Sutton, WV: the frost window
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Sutton 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
Sutton'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 Sutton's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sutton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Sutton places 22,507 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 337 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26601: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sutton can differ from the 26601 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Sutton's frost date answer different questions.