Remington, VA 22720 Frost Dates
22720, near Remington, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 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 Remington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Remington's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Remington against the rest of the dataset
Remington's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,255 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 151 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22720: the frost range, on how to read the range around Remington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Remington can differ from the 22720 normal.