Stony Creek, VA 23830 Frost Dates
23830, near Stony Creek, VA: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stony Creek in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Stony Creek's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stony Creek against the rest of the dataset
Stony Creek's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 17,048 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 572 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23830: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Stony Creek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Stony Creek's dates instead of trusting one.