Shenandoah, VA 22849 Frost Dates
22849, near Shenandoah, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 182 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 Shenandoah, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Shenandoah'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.
The actual range around Shenandoah's last frost
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.
Shenandoah against the rest of the dataset
Shenandoah's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,174 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 991 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22849: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Shenandoah's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Shenandoah's dates instead of trusting one.