Woodstock, VA 22652 Frost Dates
Woodstock, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 174 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 Woodstock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Woodstock's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Woodstock's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodstock against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Woodstock's last and first frost, putting it 27,437 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 1,088 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22652's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodstock's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Woodstock can differ from the 22652 normal.