Lynchburg, VA 24514 Frost Dates
24514, near Lynchburg, VA: the frost window
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
Lynchburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
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
Lynchburg's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 20,992 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 853 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24514: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Lynchburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lynchburg's dates instead of trusting one.