Roanoke, VA 24038 Frost Dates
Roanoke, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Roanoke 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 Roanoke'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
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Roanoke against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 210 frost-free days, Roanoke places 14,960 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 419 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24038's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Roanoke's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Roanoke can differ from the 24038 normal.