Dublin, VA 24084 Frost Dates
Dublin, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Dublin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Dublin'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
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dublin against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Dublin's last and first frost, putting it 26,949 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 1,067 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24084's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Dublin's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Dublin's dates instead of trusting one.