Coats, NC 27506 Frost Dates
27506, near Coats, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Coats 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
Coats'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.
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 03/11 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.
Coats against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 223 frost-free days, Coats places 12,070 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 444 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27506: the frost range, on how to read the range around Coats's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Coats can differ from the 27506 normal.