Broadway, VA 22830 Frost Dates
22830, near Broadway, VA: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Broadway sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Broadway's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Broadway against the rest of the dataset
Broadway's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,146 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 984 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22830: the frost range, on how to read the range around Broadway's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Broadway can differ from the 22830 normal.