Gordonsville, VA 22923 Frost Dates
22923, near Gordonsville, VA: the frost window
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gordonsville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gordonsville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 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.
Gordonsville against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Gordonsville's last and first frost, putting it 22,089 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 902 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22923: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gordonsville can differ from the 22923 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Gordonsville's frost date answer different questions.