St. Paul, VA 24237 Frost Dates
24237, near St. Paul, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 200 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 St. Paul, not a forecast for this year.
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.
Why 04/14 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 200 frost-free days, St. Paul places 17,860 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 643 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24237: the frost range, on how to read the range around St. Paul's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Paul can differ from the 24237 normal.