Warsaw, VA 22577 Frost Dates
Warsaw, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 229 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Warsaw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Warsaw's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Warsaw against the rest of the dataset
Warsaw's growing season runs about 229 days, ranking 10,609 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 118 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22577's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Warsaw's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Warsaw's dates instead of trusting one.