Surry, VA 23846 Frost Dates
Surry, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 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 Surry, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Surry's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Surry's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Surry against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Surry's last and first frost, putting it 15,120 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 440 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23846's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Surry's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Surry can differ from the 23846 normal.