Ashland, VA 23059 Frost Dates
23059, near Ashland, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Ashland sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ashland'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.
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.
Ashland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Ashland places 17,490 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 619 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23059: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ashland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ashland can differ from the 23059 normal.