Wallburg, NC 27108 Frost Dates
27108, near Wallburg, 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 Wallburg in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Wallburg'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.
Why 03/26 isn't a guarantee
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.
Wallburg against the rest of the dataset
About 228 days separate Wallburg's last and first frost, putting it 10,821 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 299 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27108: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wallburg can differ from the 27108 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Wallburg's frost date answer different questions.