Claremont, VA 23899 Frost Dates
23899, near Claremont, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Claremont sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Claremont'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 Claremont's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Claremont against the rest of the dataset
Claremont's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 16,125 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 502 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23899: the frost range, on how to read the range around Claremont's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Claremont can differ from the 23899 normal.