Ridgeway, VA 24165 Frost Dates
24165, near Ridgeway, VA: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 179 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 Ridgeway, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ridgeway'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ridgeway against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Ridgeway places 25,419 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,041 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24165: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ridgeway can differ from the 24165 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Ridgeway's frost date answer different questions.