Haymarket, VA 20155 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Haymarket, VA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 194 frost-free days later.
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 Haymarket, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Haymarket before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Haymarket's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Haymarket compares
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Haymarket places 19,513 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 770 of 1,178.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Haymarket can differ from the 20155 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Haymarket's frost date answer different questions.