Bedford, VA 24174 Frost Dates
Bedford, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bedford in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Bedford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bedford's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bedford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Bedford places 16,554 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 524 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24174's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bedford can differ from the 24174 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Bedford's frost date answer different questions.