Summersville, WV 26651 Frost Dates
26651, near Summersville, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Summersville 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
Summersville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Summersville's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Summersville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Summersville places 27,906 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 632 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26651: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Summersville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Summersville's dates instead of trusting one.