Lynchburg, VA 24505 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
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Lynchburg places 20,990 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 851 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24505's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lynchburg can differ from the 24505 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Lynchburg's frost date answer different questions.