Brookneal, VA 24577 Frost Dates
Brookneal, 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 10/24, roughly 188 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 Brookneal, not a forecast for this year.
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
About 188 days separate Brookneal's last and first frost, putting it 22,113 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 907 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24577's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Brookneal can differ from the 24577 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Brookneal's frost date answer different questions.