Honaker, VA 24646 Frost Dates
Honaker, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Honaker in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 8 weeks until Honaker's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Honaker's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Honaker against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Honaker's last and first frost, putting it 21,637 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 871 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24646's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Honaker's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Honaker can differ from the 24646 normal.