Tazewell, VA 24640 Frost Dates
24640, near Tazewell, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/09, about 254 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Tazewell 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
Tazewell's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/09 isn't a guarantee
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tazewell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 150 frost-free days, Tazewell places 35,288 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,169 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24640: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Tazewell's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Tazewell's dates instead of trusting one.