Stovall, NC 27582 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Stovall, NC, ZIP 27582
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 222 frost-free days later.
Stovall sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Stovall has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Stovall's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stovall compares
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Stovall places 12,341 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 464 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Stovall's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Stovall's dates instead of trusting one.