Newsoms, VA 23874 Frost Dates
23874, near Newsoms, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newsoms in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Newsoms'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
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newsoms against the rest of the dataset
Newsoms's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,751 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 478 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23874: the frost range, on how to read the range around Newsoms's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Newsoms can differ from the 23874 normal.