Bakersville, NC 28705 Frost Dates
Bakersville, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Bakersville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Bakersville'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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bakersville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Bakersville places 25,024 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,017 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28705's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bakersville can differ from the 28705 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bakersville's frost date answer different questions.