St. Paul, VA 24224 Frost Dates
24224, near St. Paul, VA: the frost window
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
St. Paul 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
St. Paul'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
St. Paul against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate St. Paul's last and first frost, putting it 17,859 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 642 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24224: local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Paul can differ from the 24224 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and St. Paul's frost date answer different questions.