Wise, VA 24293 Frost Dates
Wise, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 175 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 Wise, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Wise's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/25 isn't a guarantee
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wise against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Wise's last and first frost, putting it 26,941 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 1,065 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24293's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wise's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wise can differ from the 24293 normal.