Macon, NC 23845 Frost Dates
23845, near Macon, NC: the frost window
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Macon sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Macon's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Macon against the rest of the dataset
Macon's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,126 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 764 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23845: local microclimates, on what one yard in Macon can differ from the 23845 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Macon's frost date answer different questions.