Pennington Gap, VA 24243 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pennington Gap 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
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
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Pennington Gap places 25,369 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,034 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24243's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pennington Gap's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pennington Gap's dates instead of trusting one.