Culpeper, VA 22701 Frost Dates
Culpeper, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Culpeper in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Culpeper places 16,525 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 520 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22701's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Culpeper's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Culpeper's dates instead of trusting one.