Front Royal, VA 22610 Frost Dates
22610, near Front Royal, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Front Royal sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Front Royal'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 Front Royal's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Front Royal against the rest of the dataset
Front Royal's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 18,919 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 726 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22610: local microclimates, on what one yard in Front Royal can differ from the 22610 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Front Royal's frost date answer different questions.