Wytheville, VA 24382 Frost Dates
24382, near Wytheville, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Wytheville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wytheville'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.
Why 04/25 isn't a guarantee
04/25 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 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wytheville against the rest of the dataset
Wytheville's growing season runs about 174 days, ranking 27,431 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,087 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24382: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wytheville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wytheville can differ from the 24382 normal.