Bethania, NC 27010 Frost Dates
27010, near Bethania, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 204 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 Bethania, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bethania's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Bethania's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bethania against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Bethania's last and first frost, putting it 16,748 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 837 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27010: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bethania's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bethania's dates instead of trusting one.