Gordonsville, VA 22974 Frost Dates
22974, near Gordonsville, VA: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Gordonsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gordonsville'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 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gordonsville against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Gordonsville's last and first frost, putting it 24,914 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 1,015 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 22974: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gordonsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gordonsville can differ from the 22974 normal.