Courtland, VA 23878 Frost Dates
Courtland, VA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 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 Courtland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Courtland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Courtland's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Courtland against the rest of the dataset
Courtland's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,842 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 641 of 1,178.
Learn more
Before leaning on 23878's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Courtland can differ from the 23878 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Courtland's frost date answer different questions.