Norfolk, VA 23465 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Norfolk, VA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 239 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 Norfolk, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Norfolk before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Norfolk's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Norfolk compares
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Norfolk places 8,735 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 53 of 1,178.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Norfolk's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Norfolk can differ from the 23465 normal.