Ivor, VA 23898 Frost Dates
23898, near Ivor, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ivor 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
Ivor'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.
The actual range around Ivor's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ivor against the rest of the dataset
Ivor's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,745 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 477 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23898: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ivor can differ from the 23898 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Ivor's frost date answer different questions.