Front Royal, VA 22623 Frost Dates
Front Royal, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Front Royal in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Front Royal's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 18,920 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 727 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22623's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Front Royal's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Front Royal can differ from the 22623 normal.