Madison, VA 22735 Frost Dates
22735, near Madison, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Madison 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
Madison'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 Madison's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Madison against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Madison's last and first frost, putting it 20,579 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 798 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22735: the frost range, on how to read the range around Madison's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Madison can differ from the 22735 normal.