Virginia Beach, VA 23459 Frost Dates
Virginia Beach, VA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Virginia Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Virginia Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/29 isn't a guarantee
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Virginia Beach against the rest of the dataset
Virginia Beach's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,286 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 109 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23459's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Virginia Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Virginia Beach's dates instead of trusting one.