Culpeper, VA 22729 Frost Dates
22729, near Culpeper, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. 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
Culpeper'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 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 16,526 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 521 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22729: local microclimates, on what one yard in Culpeper can differ from the 22729 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Culpeper's frost date answer different questions.