Halifax, NC 27839 Frost Dates
Halifax, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Halifax sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Halifax's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Halifax against the rest of the dataset
Halifax's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,900 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 760 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27839's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Halifax's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Halifax can differ from the 27839 normal.