Alamance, NC 27201 Frost Dates
27201, near Alamance, NC: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Alamance 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
Alamance's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Alamance against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Alamance's last and first frost, putting it 14,136 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 714 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27201: the frost range, on how to read the range around Alamance's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Alamance can differ from the 27201 normal.