Walnut Cove, NC 27042 Frost Dates
Walnut Cove, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Walnut Cove sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Walnut Cove'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
04/11 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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Walnut Cove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Walnut Cove places 17,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 861 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27042's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Walnut Cove can differ from the 27042 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Walnut Cove's frost date answer different questions.