Nassawadox, VA 23354 Frost Dates
23354, near Nassawadox, 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.
Nassawadox sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Nassawadox'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.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
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.
Nassawadox against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Nassawadox's last and first frost, putting it 13,881 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 322 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23354: local microclimates, on what one yard in Nassawadox can differ from the 23354 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Nassawadox's frost date answer different questions.