Powellsville, NC 27967 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Powellsville, NC, ZIP 27967
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 208 frost-free days later.
Powellsville 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 Powellsville has about 9 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 Powellsville's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Powellsville compares
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Powellsville places 15,764 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 803 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Powellsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Powellsville's dates instead of trusting one.