Navassa, NC 28429 Frost Dates
Navassa, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 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 Navassa, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Navassa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Navassa against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Navassa places 11,214 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 375 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28429's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Navassa's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Navassa can differ from the 28429 normal.