Radford, VA 24129 Frost Dates
24129, near Radford, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Radford sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Radford's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Radford against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Radford's last and first frost, putting it 27,375 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 1,081 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24129: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Radford's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Radford's dates instead of trusting one.