Mineral, VA 22534 Frost Dates
22534, near Mineral, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 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 Mineral, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mineral'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mineral against the rest of the dataset
Mineral's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 27,164 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,073 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22534: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mineral's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mineral can differ from the 22534 normal.