Tazewell, VA 24602 Frost Dates
Tazewell, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Tazewell, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Tazewell's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Tazewell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Tazewell places 27,881 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,107 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24602's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Tazewell can differ from the 24602 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Tazewell's frost date answer different questions.