Richmond, VA 23113 Frost Dates
23113, near Richmond, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Richmond in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Richmond'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 Richmond's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Richmond against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Richmond's last and first frost, putting it 20,611 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 808 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23113: the frost range, on how to read the range around Richmond's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Richmond can differ from the 23113 normal.