Colonial Beach, VA 20682 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Colonial Beach, VA, ZIP 20682
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 195 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Colonial Beach, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Colonial Beach has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Colonial Beach's last frost
04/17 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. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Colonial Beach compares
About 195 days separate Colonial Beach's last and first frost, putting it 19,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 744 of 1,178.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Colonial Beach can differ from the 20682 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Colonial Beach's frost date answer different questions.