Stuart, VA 24171 Frost Dates
Stuart, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Stuart 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Stuart's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stuart's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stuart against the rest of the dataset
Stuart's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,221 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 860 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24171's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Stuart's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Stuart's dates instead of trusting one.