Hallwood, VA 23359 Frost Dates
Hallwood, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Hallwood 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Hallwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hallwood's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hallwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Hallwood places 11,487 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 189 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23359's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Hallwood's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hallwood's dates instead of trusting one.