Monterey, VA 24442 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Monterey, VA, ZIP 24442
Around 05/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 253 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/05, about 148 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Monterey, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Monterey has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Monterey's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Monterey compares
At roughly 148 frost-free days, Monterey places 35,806 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,176 of 1,178.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Monterey's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Monterey's dates instead of trusting one.