Halifax, VA 24597 Frost Dates
24597, near Halifax, 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 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Halifax 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
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
About 202 days separate Halifax's last and first frost, putting it 17,282 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 612 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 24597: the frost range, on how to read the range around Halifax's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Halifax can differ from the 24597 normal.