Orange, VA 22989 Frost Dates
22989, near Orange, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Orange sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Orange's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Orange's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orange against the rest of the dataset
Orange's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,579 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 534 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22989: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Orange's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Orange's dates instead of trusting one.