Richlands, VA 24622 Frost Dates
Richlands, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Richlands 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Richlands's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Richlands'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.
Richlands against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Richlands places 27,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,104 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24622's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Richlands can differ from the 24622 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Richlands's frost date answer different questions.