Warsaw, VA 22548 Frost Dates
22548, near Warsaw, VA: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 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 Warsaw, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Warsaw'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
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Warsaw against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Warsaw places 16,648 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 543 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22548: the frost range, on how to read the range around Warsaw's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Warsaw can differ from the 22548 normal.