Ramseur, NC 27316 Frost Dates
27316, near Ramseur, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Ramseur, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ramseur'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.
The actual range around Ramseur's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 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.
Ramseur against the rest of the dataset
About 207 days separate Ramseur's last and first frost, putting it 15,838 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 810 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27316: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ramseur's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ramseur can differ from the 27316 normal.