Pulaski, VA 24324 Frost Dates
Pulaski, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Pulaski sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Pulaski's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pulaski's last frost
04/25 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 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pulaski against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Pulaski places 26,841 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,062 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24324's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pulaski can differ from the 24324 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pulaski's frost date answer different questions.