Hendersonville, NC 28792 Frost Dates
Hendersonville, 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 Hendersonville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Hendersonville'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
04/14 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.
Hendersonville against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Hendersonville's last and first frost, putting it 20,201 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 953 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28792's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hendersonville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hendersonville can differ from the 28792 normal.