Fayetteville, NC 28305 Frost Dates
Fayetteville, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Fayetteville sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 11 weeks until Fayetteville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fayetteville's last frost
03/30 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 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fayetteville against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate Fayetteville's last and first frost, putting it 10,940 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 329 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28305's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fayetteville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fayetteville can differ from the 28305 normal.