Brevard, NC 28718 Frost Dates
Brevard, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 185 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 Brevard, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Brevard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Brevard's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brevard against the rest of the dataset
Brevard's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,121 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 996 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28718's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Brevard can differ from the 28718 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Brevard's frost date answer different questions.