Norfolk, VA 23462 Frost Dates
Norfolk, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Norfolk sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Norfolk's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Norfolk's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Norfolk against the rest of the dataset
About 239 days separate Norfolk's last and first frost, putting it 8,734 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 52 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23462's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Norfolk's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Norfolk's dates instead of trusting one.