Clifton Forge, VA 24445 Frost Dates
24445, near Clifton Forge, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
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 Clifton Forge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clifton Forge's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Clifton Forge's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 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.
Clifton Forge against the rest of the dataset
Clifton Forge's growing season runs about 181 days, ranking 24,537 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,005 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24445: the frost range, on how to read the range around Clifton Forge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Clifton Forge can differ from the 24445 normal.