Wentworth, NC 27289 Frost Dates
Wentworth, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
Wentworth sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Wentworth's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wentworth against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Wentworth places 14,503 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 745 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27289's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wentworth's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wentworth can differ from the 27289 normal.