Virginia Beach, VA 23479 Frost Dates
23479, near Virginia Beach, VA: the frost window
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.
Virginia Beach 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
Virginia Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Virginia Beach places 10,292 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 115 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23479: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Virginia Beach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Virginia Beach's dates instead of trusting one.