Andrews, NC 28901 Frost Dates
28901, near Andrews, NC: the frost window
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Andrews sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Andrews's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Andrews's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Andrews against the rest of the dataset
Andrews's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,616 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 976 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28901: local microclimates, on what one yard in Andrews can differ from the 28901 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Andrews's frost date answer different questions.