Wytheville, VA 24315 Frost Dates
24315, near Wytheville, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 157 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 Wytheville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wytheville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wytheville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 157 frost-free days, Wytheville places 33,285 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,160 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24315: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wytheville can differ from the 24315 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Wytheville's frost date answer different questions.