Dallas, NC 28034 Frost Dates
28034, near Dallas, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Dallas 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
Dallas's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Dallas's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 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.
Dallas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Dallas places 10,797 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 286 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28034: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Dallas's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dallas's dates instead of trusting one.