Accomac, VA 23345 Frost Dates
23345, near Accomac, VA: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Accomac in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Accomac's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Accomac against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Accomac places 13,884 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 325 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23345: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Accomac's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Accomac's dates instead of trusting one.