Newport News, VA 23693 Frost Dates
23693, near Newport News, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
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 Newport News, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Newport News's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Newport News's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newport News against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Newport News places 12,437 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 266 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23693: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newport News can differ from the 23693 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Newport News's frost date answer different questions.