Stuart, VA 24120 Frost Dates
24120, near Stuart, VA: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stuart in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Stuart'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 Stuart's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stuart against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Stuart places 23,220 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 945 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24120: the frost range, on how to read the range around Stuart's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Stuart can differ from the 24120 normal.