Tappahannock, VA 23177 Frost Dates
Tappahannock, VA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 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 Tappahannock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Tappahannock's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Tappahannock's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tappahannock against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Tappahannock places 15,261 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 450 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23177's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Tappahannock can differ from the 23177 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Tappahannock's frost date answer different questions.