Bowling Green, VA 22552 Frost Dates
22552, near Bowling Green, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 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
Bowling Green's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Bowling Green's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bowling Green against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Bowling Green's last and first frost, putting it 15,311 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 451 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22552: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bowling Green's dates instead of trusting one.