Boones Mill, VA 24067 Frost Dates
24067, near Boones Mill, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Boones Mill in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Boones Mill's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Boones Mill's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Boones Mill against the rest of the dataset
Boones Mill's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,941 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 939 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24067: local microclimates, on what one yard in Boones Mill can differ from the 24067 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Boones Mill's frost date answer different questions.