Pocahontas, VA 24606 Frost Dates
Pocahontas, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 168 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 Pocahontas, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Pocahontas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pocahontas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Pocahontas places 29,785 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,156 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24606's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pocahontas's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pocahontas can differ from the 24606 normal.