Goldston, NC 27207 Frost Dates
Goldston, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 203 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 Goldston, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Goldston'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
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goldston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Goldston places 17,038 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 855 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27207's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Goldston's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Goldston can differ from the 27207 normal.