Wallburg, NC 27113 Frost Dates
27113, near Wallburg, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Wallburg places 10,824 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 302 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27113: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wallburg can differ from the 27113 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Wallburg's frost date answer different questions.