Newland, NC 28652 Frost Dates
28652, near Newland, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Newland 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Newland's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newland against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate Newland's last and first frost, putting it 32,458 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 1,054 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28652: the frost range, on how to read the range around Newland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Newland can differ from the 28652 normal.