Orange, VA 22567 Frost Dates
22567, near Orange, VA: the frost window
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 Orange, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Orange'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 Orange'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.
Orange against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Orange places 16,574 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 529 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22567: the frost range, on how to read the range around Orange's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Orange can differ from the 22567 normal.