Vinton, VA 24101 Frost Dates
Vinton, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Vinton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Vinton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Vinton's last frost
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.
Vinton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 210 frost-free days, Vinton places 14,996 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 429 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24101's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Vinton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Vinton's dates instead of trusting one.