Yanceyville, NC 27314 Frost Dates
27314, near Yanceyville, NC: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Yanceyville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Yanceyville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yanceyville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Yanceyville places 19,506 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 937 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27314: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Yanceyville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Yanceyville's dates instead of trusting one.