Clarksville, VA 24529 Frost Dates
24529, near Clarksville, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Clarksville 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
Clarksville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clarksville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Clarksville places 12,844 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 294 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24529: the frost range, on how to read the range around Clarksville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Clarksville can differ from the 24529 normal.