Clemmons, NC 27012 Frost Dates
27012, near Clemmons, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 204 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 Clemmons, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clemmons'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
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 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.
Clemmons against the rest of the dataset
Clemmons's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,522 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 832 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27012: local microclimates, on what one yard in Clemmons can differ from the 27012 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Clemmons's frost date answer different questions.