Staunton, VA 24476 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Staunton, VA, ZIP 24476
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 191 frost-free days later.
Staunton sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Staunton has about 9 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 Staunton's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Staunton compares
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Staunton places 20,713 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 822 of 1,178.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Staunton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Staunton's dates instead of trusting one.