Winston-Salem, NC 27127 Frost Dates
Winston-Salem, 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.
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
With roughly 10 weeks until Winston-Salem's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
Winston-Salem's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,686 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 279 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27127's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Winston-Salem's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Winston-Salem's dates instead of trusting one.