Scottsville, VA 22969 Frost Dates
22969, near Scottsville, VA: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
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 Scottsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Scottsville'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 04/15 isn't a guarantee
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scottsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Scottsville places 20,043 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 782 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22969: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Scottsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Scottsville's dates instead of trusting one.