Bailey, NC 27807 Frost Dates
Bailey, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 236 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 Bailey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Bailey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/22 isn't a guarantee
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bailey against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Bailey places 9,508 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 138 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27807's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bailey's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bailey can differ from the 27807 normal.