Richlands, VA 24639 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.
Richlands sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Richlands's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/27 isn't a guarantee
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 27,868 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,105 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24639's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Richlands's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Richlands can differ from the 24639 normal.