Mount Crawford, VA 24486 Frost Dates
Mount Crawford, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 182 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 Mount Crawford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Mount Crawford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mount Crawford's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Crawford against the rest of the dataset
Mount Crawford's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,294 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 997 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24486's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mount Crawford can differ from the 24486 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Mount Crawford's frost date answer different questions.