Stephens City, VA 22655 Frost Dates
22655, near Stephens City, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 200 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 Stephens City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Stephens City'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 Stephens City's last frost
04/11 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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stephens City against the rest of the dataset
Stephens City's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,805 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 638 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22655: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Stephens City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Stephens City's dates instead of trusting one.