Irvington, VA 22576 Frost Dates
Irvington, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 223 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 Irvington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Irvington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Irvington's last frost
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
Irvington's growing season runs about 223 days, ranking 12,118 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 218 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22576's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Irvington can differ from the 22576 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Irvington's frost date answer different questions.