The Plains, VA 20140 Frost Dates
The Plains, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for The Plains, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until The Plains's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around The Plains's last frost
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.
The Plains against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, The Plains places 18,531 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 720 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20140's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in The Plains can differ from the 20140 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and The Plains's frost date answer different questions.