Boones Mill, VA 24059 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Boones Mill, VA, ZIP 24059
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 186 frost-free days later.
Boones Mill 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Boones Mill has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Boones Mill's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Boones Mill compares
About 186 days separate Boones Mill's last and first frost, putting it 22,939 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 937 of 1,178.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Boones Mill's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Boones Mill's dates instead of trusting one.