North Wilkesboro, NC 28649 Frost Dates
North Wilkesboro, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 North Wilkesboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until North Wilkesboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around North Wilkesboro's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Wilkesboro against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate North Wilkesboro's last and first frost, putting it 32,972 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 1,067 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28649's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around North Wilkesboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in North Wilkesboro can differ from the 28649 normal.