Bristol, VA 24201 Frost Dates
Bristol, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Bristol, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Bristol's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bristol's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bristol against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Bristol places 24,090 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 974 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24201's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bristol can differ from the 24201 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bristol's frost date answer different questions.