Hampton, VA 23651 Frost Dates
23651, near Hampton, VA: the frost window
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hampton in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hampton's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Hampton's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hampton against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Hampton's last and first frost, putting it 6,884 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 10 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23651: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Hampton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hampton's dates instead of trusting one.