Lynchburg, VA 24504 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lynchburg, VA, ZIP 24504
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 190 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Lynchburg has about 8 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 Lynchburg's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lynchburg compares
Lynchburg's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 20,989 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 850 of 1,178.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Lynchburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lynchburg's dates instead of trusting one.