Summerfield, NC 27358 Frost Dates
Summerfield, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Summerfield in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Summerfield'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
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Summerfield against the rest of the dataset
About 220 days separate Summerfield's last and first frost, putting it 12,764 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 572 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27358's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Summerfield's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Summerfield can differ from the 27358 normal.