Roanoke, VA 24002 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Roanoke, VA?
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 210 frost-free days later.
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 Roanoke, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Roanoke before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Roanoke's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Roanoke compares
At roughly 210 frost-free days, Roanoke places 14,930 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 389 of 1,178.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Roanoke can differ from the 24002 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Roanoke's frost date answer different questions.