Danville, VA 24540 Frost Dates
24540, near Danville, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Danville in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Danville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Danville's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Danville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Danville places 16,178 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 506 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24540: the frost range, on how to read the range around Danville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Danville can differ from the 24540 normal.