Lawrenceville, VA 23868 Frost Dates
Lawrenceville, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lawrenceville 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Lawrenceville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 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.
Lawrenceville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Lawrenceville places 12,544 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 279 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23868's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lawrenceville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lawrenceville can differ from the 23868 normal.