Fincastle, VA 24090 Frost Dates
24090, near Fincastle, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Fincastle 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
Fincastle's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Fincastle's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fincastle against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Fincastle places 16,373 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 517 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24090: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fincastle can differ from the 24090 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Fincastle's frost date answer different questions.