Bowling Green, VA 22428 Frost Dates
Bowling Green, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Bowling Green, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Bowling Green's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bowling Green against the rest of the dataset
Bowling Green's growing season runs about 201 days, ranking 17,568 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 623 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22428's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bowling Green's dates instead of trusting one.