Youngsville, NC 27596 Frost Dates
Youngsville, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 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 Youngsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Youngsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Youngsville's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Youngsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Youngsville places 17,525 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 881 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27596's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Youngsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Youngsville can differ from the 27596 normal.