Last Updated on April 7, 2021 7:23 pm
The frost/freeze program in the spring, which means when the National Weather Service issues Frost and Freeze headlines normally begins after the average last date of a freeze normally happens.
For the foothill and piedmont counties in the Blacksburg forecast area, this occurs in mid-April and for the mountains, first of May.
Below are two maps, the first of which shows the dates of when we start issuing frost and freeze headlines in the Spring, and the other is a more regional depictions of the average last freezes.