Wytheville, VA 24322 Frost Dates
Wytheville, 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 174 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wytheville 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 7 weeks until Wytheville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wytheville's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wytheville against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Wytheville's last and first frost, putting it 27,429 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 1,085 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24322's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wytheville can differ from the 24322 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wytheville's frost date answer different questions.