Galax, VA 27024 Frost Dates
27024, near Galax, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Galax sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Galax's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Galax's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Galax against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Galax places 24,836 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 1,014 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27024: local microclimates, on what one yard in Galax can differ from the 27024 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Galax's frost date answer different questions.