Cedar Bluff, VA 24601 Frost Dates
Cedar Bluff, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Cedar Bluff sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 7 weeks until Cedar Bluff's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cedar Bluff's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cedar Bluff against the rest of the dataset
Cedar Bluff's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 27,988 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,112 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24601's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedar Bluff can differ from the 24601 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Cedar Bluff's frost date answer different questions.