Victoria, VA 23974 Frost Dates
23974, near Victoria, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Victoria 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
Victoria'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
04/08 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.
Victoria against the rest of the dataset
About 206 days separate Victoria's last and first frost, putting it 16,044 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 494 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23974: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Victoria's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Victoria's dates instead of trusting one.