Bowling Green, VA 22446 Frost Dates
Bowling Green, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 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 10 weeks until Bowling Green's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bowling Green's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 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 226 days, ranking 11,229 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 145 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22446's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bowling Green's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bowling Green can differ from the 22446 normal.