Belville, NC 28401 Frost Dates
Belville, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
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 Belville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Belville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Belville's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belville against the rest of the dataset
Belville's growing season runs about 247 days, ranking 7,832 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 51 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28401's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Belville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Belville can differ from the 28401 normal.