Crossnore, NC 28662 Frost Dates
Crossnore, NC: when does the frost end?
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.
Crossnore 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
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
About 160 days separate Crossnore's last and first frost, putting it 32,535 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 1,058 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28662's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Crossnore can differ from the 28662 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Crossnore's frost date answer different questions.