Littleton, NC 23857 Frost Dates
23857, near Littleton, NC: the frost window
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Littleton sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Littleton's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Littleton's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Littleton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Littleton places 10,460 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 235 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23857: the frost range, on how to read the range around Littleton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Littleton can differ from the 23857 normal.