Cleveland, VA 24217 Frost Dates
24217, near Cleveland, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cleveland in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Cleveland's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Cleveland's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Cleveland's last and first frost, putting it 17,918 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 648 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24217: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cleveland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 24217 normal.