Hillsville, VA 24312 Frost Dates
Hillsville, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 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 Hillsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Hillsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hillsville's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 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.
Hillsville against the rest of the dataset
Hillsville's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,663 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,135 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24312's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hillsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hillsville can differ from the 24312 normal.