Alberta, VA 23873 Frost Dates
23873, near Alberta, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Alberta sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Alberta'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.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
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.
Alberta against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Alberta's last and first frost, putting it 12,591 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 287 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23873: the frost range, on how to read the range around Alberta's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Alberta can differ from the 23873 normal.