Tappahannock, VA 22437 Frost Dates
22437, near Tappahannock, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Tappahannock 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
Tappahannock'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 Tappahannock's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tappahannock against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Tappahannock's last and first frost, putting it 16,627 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 536 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22437: the frost range, on how to read the range around Tappahannock's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Tappahannock can differ from the 22437 normal.