Winston-Salem, NC 27103 Frost Dates
27103, near Winston-Salem, NC: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winston-Salem in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Winston-Salem's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Winston-Salem's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winston-Salem against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Winston-Salem places 10,683 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 276 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27103: local microclimates, on what one yard in Winston-Salem can differ from the 27103 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Winston-Salem's frost date answer different questions.