Buena Vista, VA 24483 Frost Dates
24483, near Buena Vista, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 181 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 Buena Vista, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Buena Vista'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 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 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buena Vista against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Buena Vista places 24,499 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,003 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24483: local microclimates, on what one yard in Buena Vista can differ from the 24483 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Buena Vista's frost date answer different questions.