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Remington, VA 22508 Frost Dates

22508, near Remington, VA: the frost window

Zone 7a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Remington, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Remington'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.

The actual range around Remington's last frost

04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 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.

Remington against the rest of the dataset

Remington's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,698 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 549 of 1,178.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 22508: the frost range, on how to read the range around Remington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Remington can differ from the 22508 normal.