High Point, NC 27262 Frost Dates
High Point, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
High Point 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 10 weeks until High Point's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
03/30 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 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
High Point against the rest of the dataset
About 220 days separate High Point's last and first frost, putting it 12,675 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 544 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27262's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and High Point's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around High Point's dates instead of trusting one.