Broadway, VA 22850 Frost Dates
Broadway, VA: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Broadway in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Broadway's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Broadway'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.
Broadway against the rest of the dataset
Broadway's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,149 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 987 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22850's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Broadway's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Broadway can differ from the 22850 normal.