Pennington Gap, VA 24218 Frost Dates
Pennington Gap, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Pennington Gap sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Pennington Gap's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pennington Gap's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 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.
Pennington Gap against the rest of the dataset
Pennington Gap's growing season runs about 179 days, ranking 25,368 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,033 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24218's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pennington Gap's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pennington Gap can differ from the 24218 normal.