Franklinville, NC 27204 Frost Dates
Franklinville, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Franklinville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Franklinville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Franklinville's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Franklinville against the rest of the dataset
Franklinville's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,919 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 429 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27204's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Franklinville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Franklinville can differ from the 27204 normal.