Danbury, NC 27022 Frost Dates
Danbury, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Danbury 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Danbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Danbury against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Danbury places 17,369 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 864 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27022's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Danbury's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Danbury can differ from the 27022 normal.