Irvington, VA 22480 Frost Dates
22480, near Irvington, VA: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Irvington sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Irvington's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Irvington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 223 frost-free days, Irvington places 12,117 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 217 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22480: the frost range, on how to read the range around Irvington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Irvington can differ from the 22480 normal.