Greensboro, NC 27455 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Greensboro, NC, ZIP 27455
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 217 frost-free days later.
Greensboro 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Greensboro has about 10 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Greensboro compares
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Greensboro places 13,374 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 649 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Greensboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Greensboro's dates instead of trusting one.