West Point, VA 23124 Frost Dates
West Point, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 West Point, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until West Point's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Point against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, West Point places 15,238 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 445 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23124's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around West Point's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in West Point can differ from the 23124 normal.