Craigsville, VA 24430 Frost Dates
24430, near Craigsville, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 191 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 Craigsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Craigsville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Craigsville against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Craigsville's last and first frost, putting it 20,840 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 837 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24430: local microclimates, on what one yard in Craigsville can differ from the 24430 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Craigsville's frost date answer different questions.