Clarksville, VA 23927 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Clarksville, VA, ZIP 23927
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 220 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 Clarksville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Clarksville has about 10 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.
The actual range around Clarksville's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Clarksville compares
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Clarksville places 12,842 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 292 of 1,178.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Clarksville can differ from the 23927 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Clarksville's frost date answer different questions.