Wilson's Mills, NC 27593 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Wilson's Mills, NC, ZIP 27593
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 225 frost-free days later.
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 Wilson's Mills, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Wilson's Mills 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
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wilson's Mills compares
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Wilson's Mills places 11,426 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 420 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Wilson's Mills's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Wilson's Mills's dates instead of trusting one.