Stanardsville, VA 22973 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Stanardsville, VA, ZIP 22973
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 188 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 8 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.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stanardsville compares
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Stanardsville places 22,180 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 911 of 1,178.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Stanardsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Stanardsville can differ from the 22973 normal.