Remington, VA 22728 Frost Dates
22728, near Remington, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Remington sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
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.
The actual range around Remington's last frost
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
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Remington places 11,256 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 152 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22728: local microclimates, on what one yard in Remington can differ from the 22728 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Remington's frost date answer different questions.