Liberty, NC 27349 Frost Dates
27349, near Liberty, 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.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Liberty'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.
Liberty against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Liberty's last and first frost, putting it 14,096 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 708 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27349: the frost range, on how to read the range around Liberty's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Liberty can differ from the 27349 normal.