Falls Church, VA 22230 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Falls Church, VA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 202 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Falls Church before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Falls Church's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Falls Church compares
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Falls Church places 17,187 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 602 of 1,178.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Falls Church's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Falls Church can differ from the 22230 normal.