Hillsville, VA 24328 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hillsville, VA, ZIP 24328
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 171 frost-free days later.
Hillsville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Hillsville has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hillsville's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hillsville compares
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Hillsville places 28,664 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,136 of 1,178.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Hillsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Hillsville's dates instead of trusting one.