Fayetteville, NC 28302 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fayetteville, NC, ZIP 28302
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 227 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Fayetteville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Fayetteville has about 11 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 Fayetteville's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fayetteville compares
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Fayetteville places 10,938 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 327 of 1,078.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Fayetteville can differ from the 28302 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Fayetteville's frost date answer different questions.