Floyd, VA 24185 Frost Dates
Floyd, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 190 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 Floyd, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Floyd's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/19 isn't a guarantee
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.
Floyd against the rest of the dataset
Floyd's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,280 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 863 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24185's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Floyd's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Floyd's dates instead of trusting one.