Falls Church, VA 22219 Frost Dates
22219, near Falls Church, VA: the frost window
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.
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 Falls Church, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Falls Church's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 17,183 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 598 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22219: local microclimates, on what one yard in Falls Church can differ from the 22219 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Falls Church's frost date answer different questions.