Falls Church, VA 22213 Frost Dates
Falls Church, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Falls Church sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Falls Church's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/09 isn't a guarantee
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Falls Church against the rest of the dataset
About 202 days separate Falls Church's last and first frost, putting it 17,178 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 593 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22213's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Falls Church's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Falls Church's dates instead of trusting one.