Ansonville, NC 28007 Frost Dates
Ansonville, 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 11/09, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ansonville 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 10 weeks until Ansonville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ansonville's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ansonville against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Ansonville's last and first frost, putting it 10,255 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 207 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28007's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ansonville can differ from the 28007 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Ansonville's frost date answer different questions.