Pocahontas, VA 24613 Frost Dates
24613, near Pocahontas, VA: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pocahontas in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Pocahontas's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 29,786 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,157 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24613: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pocahontas can differ from the 24613 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pocahontas's frost date answer different questions.