Cicadas 2024 Virginia. That’s because 2024 will see two separate batches of periodical cicadas emerge en masse, spread across much of the eastern half of the u.s. Where billions of cicadas will emerge this spring (and over the next decade), in one map.

The cicadas have one aim in the few weeks they spend above ground: For the first time in 221 years, two broods of cicadas that spend the vast majority of their lives underground will emerge, invading backyards in 17 states,.