West Point, VA 23108 Frost Dates
23108, near West Point, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
West Point sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
West Point'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 West Point's last frost
04/06 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 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Point against the rest of the dataset
West Point's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,608 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 460 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23108: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Point can differ from the 23108 normal.