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Saltville, VA 24370 Frost Dates

Saltville, VA: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

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 Saltville 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 Saltville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Saltville's last frost

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.

Saltville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 178 frost-free days, Saltville places 25,767 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,045 of 1,178.

Learn more

Before leaning on 24370's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Saltville can differ from the 24370 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Saltville's frost date answer different questions.