Staunton, VA 24440 Frost Dates
Staunton, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Staunton 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 9 weeks until Staunton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Staunton's last frost
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.
Staunton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Staunton places 20,710 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 819 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24440's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Staunton can differ from the 24440 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Staunton's frost date answer different questions.