Waynesboro, VA 22924 Frost Dates
Waynesboro, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Waynesboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Waynesboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waynesboro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Waynesboro places 22,723 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 922 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22924's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Waynesboro's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Waynesboro's dates instead of trusting one.