Hertford, NC 27944 Frost Dates
Hertford, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Hertford 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 11 weeks until Hertford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hertford's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hertford against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Hertford's last and first frost, putting it 8,983 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 109 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27944's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hertford's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hertford can differ from the 27944 normal.