Stanardsville, VA 22935 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Stanardsville, VA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 211 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 Stanardsville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Stanardsville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Stanardsville's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stanardsville compares
About 211 days separate Stanardsville's last and first frost, putting it 14,872 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 385 of 1,178.
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local microclimates covers what one yard in Stanardsville can differ from the 22935 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Stanardsville's frost date answer different questions.