Scottsville, VA 23038 Frost Dates
23038, near Scottsville, 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 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.
The actual range around Scottsville's last frost
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.
Scottsville against the rest of the dataset
Scottsville's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 25,010 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 1,018 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23038: local microclimates, on what one yard in Scottsville can differ from the 23038 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Scottsville's frost date answer different questions.