Wallburg, NC 27115 Frost Dates
Wallburg, NC: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Wallburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Wallburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wallburg'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.
Wallburg against the rest of the dataset
Wallburg's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,826 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 304 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27115's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wallburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wallburg can differ from the 27115 normal.