Clayton, NC 27520 Frost Dates
Clayton, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 211 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 Clayton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Clayton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Clayton's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clayton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 211 frost-free days, Clayton places 14,719 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 749 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27520's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Clayton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Clayton's dates instead of trusting one.