Aulander, NC 27805 Frost Dates
Aulander, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 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 Aulander, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Aulander's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Aulander's last frost
04/06 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 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Aulander against the rest of the dataset
Aulander's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,701 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 794 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27805's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Aulander's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Aulander's dates instead of trusting one.