Hillsville, VA 24325 Frost Dates
24325, near Hillsville, VA: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hillsville 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
Hillsville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hillsville against the rest of the dataset
About 185 days separate Hillsville's last and first frost, putting it 23,167 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 942 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24325: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Hillsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hillsville's dates instead of trusting one.