Hobgood, NC 27843 Frost Dates
27843, near Hobgood, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Hobgood 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
Hobgood's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hobgood against the rest of the dataset
Hobgood's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,301 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 405 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27843: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hobgood can differ from the 27843 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Hobgood's frost date answer different questions.