Elk Park, NC 28622 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Elk Park, NC, ZIP 28622
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 159 frost-free days later.
Elk Park sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Elk Park has about 7 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.
The actual range around Elk Park's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Elk Park compares
At roughly 159 frost-free days, Elk Park places 32,728 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,065 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Elk Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Elk Park's dates instead of trusting one.