Charlottesville, VA 22909 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Charlottesville, VA, ZIP 22909
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 213 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Charlottesville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Charlottesville has about 10 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 Charlottesville's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Charlottesville compares
Charlottesville's growing season runs about 213 days, ranking 14,440 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 381 of 1,178.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Charlottesville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Charlottesville's dates instead of trusting one.