Charlottesville, VA 22906 Frost Dates
22906, near Charlottesville, VA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Charlottesville 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
Charlottesville's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Charlottesville's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Charlottesville against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Charlottesville's last and first frost, putting it 12,198 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 243 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22906: the frost range, on how to read the range around Charlottesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Charlottesville can differ from the 22906 normal.