Cofield, NC 27922 Frost Dates
27922, near Cofield, NC: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Cofield 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
Cofield's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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.
Cofield against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Cofield's last and first frost, putting it 15,756 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 802 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27922: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cofield can differ from the 27922 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Cofield's frost date answer different questions.