Culpeper, VA 22433 Frost Dates
Culpeper, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Culpeper sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Culpeper's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Culpeper's last frost
04/07 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Culpeper against the rest of the dataset
Culpeper's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,524 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 519 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22433's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Culpeper can differ from the 22433 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Culpeper's frost date answer different questions.