Dobson, NC 27031 Frost Dates
27031, near Dobson, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Dobson 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
Dobson's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Dobson's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dobson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Dobson places 19,518 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 941 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27031: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Dobson's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dobson's dates instead of trusting one.