Boyce, VA 20130 Frost Dates
Boyce, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Boyce 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Boyce's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Boyce against the rest of the dataset
Boyce's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,471 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 706 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20130's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Boyce's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Boyce's dates instead of trusting one.