Glade Spring, VA 24340 Frost Dates
Glade Spring, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Glade Spring 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 8 weeks until Glade Spring's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 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 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Glade Spring against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Glade Spring places 25,779 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,048 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24340's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Glade Spring's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Glade Spring can differ from the 24340 normal.