Rocky Mount, VA 24176 Frost Dates
Rocky Mount, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 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 Rocky Mount, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Rocky Mount's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rocky Mount's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rocky Mount against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Rocky Mount places 21,997 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 900 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24176's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Rocky Mount's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rocky Mount's dates instead of trusting one.