Wallburg, NC 27117 Frost Dates
27117, 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.
Wallburg sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
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
About 228 days separate Wallburg's last and first frost, putting it 10,828 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 306 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27117: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wallburg can differ from the 27117 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Wallburg's frost date answer different questions.