Middletown, VA 22645 Frost Dates
22645, near Middletown, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Middletown 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
Middletown's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Middletown's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Middletown against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Middletown's last and first frost, putting it 28,369 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 1,121 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22645: local microclimates, on what one yard in Middletown can differ from the 22645 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Middletown's frost date answer different questions.