Lattimore, NC 28089 Frost Dates
Lattimore, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lattimore 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 8 weeks until Lattimore's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lattimore's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lattimore against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Lattimore places 19,336 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 922 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28089's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lattimore's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lattimore can differ from the 28089 normal.