Murfreesboro, NC 27855 Frost Dates
Murfreesboro, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Murfreesboro 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 Murfreesboro'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
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Murfreesboro against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Murfreesboro's last and first frost, putting it 15,644 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 790 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27855's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Murfreesboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Murfreesboro can differ from the 27855 normal.