Remington, VA 22742 Frost Dates
22742, 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.
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 11,258 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 154 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22742: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Remington's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Remington's dates instead of trusting one.