Hillsville, VA 24343 Frost Dates
24343, near Hillsville, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 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 7 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
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hillsville against the rest of the dataset
Hillsville's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,665 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,137 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24343: 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.