Rural Hall, NC 27045 Frost Dates
Rural Hall, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Rural Hall 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 Rural Hall's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rural Hall's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rural Hall against the rest of the dataset
Rural Hall's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,235 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 775 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27045's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Rural Hall can differ from the 27045 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Rural Hall's frost date answer different questions.