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Misenheimer, NC 28109 Frost Dates

28109, near Misenheimer, NC: the frost window

Zone 8a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.

Misenheimer 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

Misenheimer'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 Misenheimer's last frost

03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Misenheimer against the rest of the dataset

Misenheimer's growing season runs about 220 days, ranking 12,874 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 596 of 1,078.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 28109: local microclimates, on what one yard in Misenheimer can differ from the 28109 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Misenheimer's frost date answer different questions.