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White Stone, VA 23064 Frost Dates

23064, near White Stone, VA: the frost window

Zone 8a

Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts White Stone in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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

White Stone's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 White Stone's last frost

04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

White Stone against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 223 frost-free days, White Stone places 12,134 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 228 of 1,178.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 23064: local microclimates, on what one yard in White Stone can differ from the 23064 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and White Stone's frost date answer different questions.