Jamesville, NC 27846 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Jamesville, NC, ZIP 27846
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 239 frost-free days later.
Jamesville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Jamesville has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Jamesville's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Jamesville compares
About 239 days separate Jamesville's last and first frost, putting it 8,878 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 91 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Jamesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Jamesville can differ from the 27846 normal.