Matewan, WV 41543 Frost Dates
41543, near Matewan, WV: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Matewan, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Matewan's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Matewan's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Matewan against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Matewan's last and first frost, putting it 21,723 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WV, it ranks 319 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41543: the frost range, on how to read the range around Matewan's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Matewan can differ from the 41543 normal.