Crossnore, NC 28657 Frost Dates
Crossnore, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Crossnore, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Crossnore's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Crossnore's last frost
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.
Crossnore against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Crossnore places 32,534 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,057 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28657's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Crossnore can differ from the 28657 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Crossnore's frost date answer different questions.