Liberty, NC 27298 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Liberty, NC, ZIP 27298
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 215 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Liberty in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Liberty has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Liberty's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Liberty compares
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Liberty places 14,095 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 707 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Liberty's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Liberty's dates instead of trusting one.