West Point, VA 23140 Frost Dates
23140, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Point 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
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
About 208 days separate West Point's last and first frost, putting it 15,610 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 462 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23140: 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 23140 normal.