Lynchburg, VA 24501 Frost Dates
Lynchburg, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Lynchburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Lynchburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lynchburg's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lynchburg against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Lynchburg's last and first frost, putting it 20,986 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 847 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24501's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lynchburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lynchburg can differ from the 24501 normal.