Virginia Beach, VA 27950 Frost Dates
Virginia Beach, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Virginia Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Virginia Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Virginia Beach's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Virginia Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 240 days separate Virginia Beach's last and first frost, putting it 8,660 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 43 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27950's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Virginia Beach's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Virginia Beach can differ from the 27950 normal.