Gatesville, NC 27926 Frost Dates
Gatesville, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gatesville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Gatesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gatesville's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gatesville against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Gatesville's last and first frost, putting it 21,301 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 972 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27926's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Gatesville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Gatesville's dates instead of trusting one.