Gibsonville, NC 27249 Frost Dates
Gibsonville, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Gibsonville sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Gibsonville'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
04/01 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 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gibsonville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Gibsonville places 14,059 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 701 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27249's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gibsonville can differ from the 27249 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Gibsonville's frost date answer different questions.