Chase City, VA 23964 Frost Dates
23964, near Chase City, VA: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Chase City 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
Chase City'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.
The actual range around Chase City's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 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.
Chase City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Chase City places 12,831 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 291 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23964: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Chase City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Chase City's dates instead of trusting one.