Boyce, VA 22620 Frost Dates
22620, near Boyce, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 198 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 Boyce, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Boyce'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
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Boyce against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Boyce's last and first frost, putting it 18,472 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 707 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22620: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Boyce's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Boyce's dates instead of trusting one.