Flat Rock, NC 28724 Frost Dates
Flat Rock, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 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 Flat Rock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Flat Rock's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Flat Rock's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Flat Rock against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Flat Rock's last and first frost, putting it 20,308 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 956 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28724's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Flat Rock can differ from the 28724 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Flat Rock's frost date answer different questions.