Eastville, VA 23347 Frost Dates
23347, near Eastville, VA: the frost window
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eastville 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
Eastville's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eastville against the rest of the dataset
About 234 days separate Eastville's last and first frost, putting it 9,812 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 93 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23347: the frost range, on how to read the range around Eastville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Eastville can differ from the 23347 normal.