Hassell, NC 27841 Frost Dates
Hassell, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 239 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 Hassell, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Hassell's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hassell's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hassell against the rest of the dataset
About 239 days separate Hassell's last and first frost, putting it 8,915 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 97 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27841's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hassell's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hassell can differ from the 27841 normal.