Pamplin City, VA 23958 Frost Dates
23958, near Pamplin City, 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 206 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 Pamplin City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pamplin City'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 Pamplin City's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pamplin City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Pamplin City places 16,141 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 503 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23958: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pamplin City can differ from the 23958 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Pamplin City's frost date answer different questions.