Clarksville, VA 27584 Frost Dates
Clarksville, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Clarksville 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Clarksville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Clarksville's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clarksville against the rest of the dataset
Clarksville's growing season runs about 220 days, ranking 12,846 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 296 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27584's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Clarksville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Clarksville can differ from the 27584 normal.