Claremont, NC 28610 Frost Dates
28610, near Claremont, NC: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Claremont in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Claremont's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Claremont's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Claremont against the rest of the dataset
Claremont's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,425 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 226 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28610: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Claremont's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Claremont's dates instead of trusting one.