West Point, VA 23168 Frost Dates
West Point, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 225 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 11 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
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Point against the rest of the dataset
About 225 days separate West Point's last and first frost, putting it 11,415 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 175 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23168's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in West Point can differ from the 23168 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and West Point's frost date answer different questions.