Stanardsville, VA 22968 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Stanardsville, VA, ZIP 22968
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
Zone 7b around Stanardsville has about 9 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 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 14,873 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 386 of 1,178.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Stanardsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Stanardsville's dates instead of trusting one.