Farmville, VA 23966 Frost Dates
23966, near Farmville, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Farmville 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
Farmville'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 Farmville's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 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.
Farmville against the rest of the dataset
Farmville's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 15,993 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 482 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23966: the frost range, on how to read the range around Farmville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Farmville can differ from the 23966 normal.