Brookneal, VA 24528 Frost Dates
Brookneal, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Brookneal sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Brookneal's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Brookneal's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brookneal against the rest of the dataset
Brookneal's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,110 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 904 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24528's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Brookneal's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Brookneal's dates instead of trusting one.