Hillsville, VA 24352 Frost Dates
Hillsville, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Hillsville'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
04/21 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 23,168 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 943 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24352's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hillsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hillsville can differ from the 24352 normal.