Halifax, VA 24539 Frost Dates
24539, near Halifax, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Halifax, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Halifax'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 Halifax's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Halifax against the rest of the dataset
Halifax's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,280 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 610 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24539: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Halifax's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Halifax's dates instead of trusting one.