Bowling Green, VA 23126 Frost Dates
Bowling Green, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Bowling Green 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
With roughly 9 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
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
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Bowling Green places 15,312 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 452 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23126's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bowling Green's dates instead of trusting one.