Jamestown, NC 27407 Frost Dates
27407, near Jamestown, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 217 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 Jamestown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Jamestown's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 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.
Jamestown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Jamestown places 13,476 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 671 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27407: the frost range, on how to read the range around Jamestown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Jamestown can differ from the 27407 normal.