Charlottesville, VA 22959 Frost Dates
22959, near Charlottesville, VA: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Charlottesville in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
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.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
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 12,202 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 247 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22959: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Charlottesville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Charlottesville's dates instead of trusting one.