Hopewell, VA 23836 Frost Dates
23836, near Hopewell, VA: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Hopewell, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hopewell'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 Hopewell's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hopewell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Hopewell places 12,216 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 248 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23836: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hopewell's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hopewell can differ from the 23836 normal.