Craigsville, VA 24487 Frost Dates
Craigsville, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 148 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Craigsville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Craigsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Craigsville's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Craigsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 148 frost-free days, Craigsville places 35,758 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,174 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24487's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Craigsville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Craigsville's dates instead of trusting one.