Madison, VA 22732 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Madison, VA, ZIP 22732
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 188 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Madison, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Madison has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Madison's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Madison compares
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Madison places 22,216 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 918 of 1,178.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Madison can differ from the 22732 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Madison's frost date answer different questions.