Vass, NC 28350 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Vass, NC, ZIP 28350
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 214 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Vass, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Vass has about 10 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Vass compares
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Vass places 14,285 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 723 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Vass's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Vass's dates instead of trusting one.