Waynesboro, VA 22980 Frost Dates
22980, near Waynesboro, 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 184 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 Waynesboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Waynesboro'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 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waynesboro against the rest of the dataset
Waynesboro's growing season runs about 184 days, ranking 23,441 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 953 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22980: the frost range, on how to read the range around Waynesboro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Waynesboro can differ from the 22980 normal.