Mineral, VA 23063 Frost Dates
Mineral, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Mineral sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Mineral'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
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mineral against the rest of the dataset
Mineral's growing season runs about 191 days, ranking 20,886 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 841 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23063's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Mineral's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mineral's dates instead of trusting one.