Lenoir, NC 28645 Frost Dates
Lenoir, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Lenoir sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lenoir'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
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lenoir against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Lenoir's last and first frost, putting it 12,973 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 610 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28645's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lenoir's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lenoir can differ from the 28645 normal.