Scottsville, VA 22938 Frost Dates
Scottsville, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
Scottsville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Scottsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scottsville against the rest of the dataset
About 184 days separate Scottsville's last and first frost, putting it 23,619 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 958 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 22938's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Scottsville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Scottsville's dates instead of trusting one.