Summersville, WV 26662 Frost Dates
Summersville, WV: when does the frost end?
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 154 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Summersville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Summersville's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Summersville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Summersville places 34,289 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 847 of 885.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26662's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Summersville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Summersville's dates instead of trusting one.