Parksley, VA 23412 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Parksley, VA, ZIP 23412
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/11, about 225 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Parksley, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Parksley has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Parksley's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Parksley compares
About 225 days separate Parksley's last and first frost, putting it 11,452 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 181 of 1,178.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Parksley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Parksley can differ from the 23412 normal.