Lucama, NC 27851 Frost Dates
27851, near Lucama, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Lucama 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lucama's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Lucama's last frost
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lucama against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Lucama places 9,456 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 135 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27851: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lucama's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lucama can differ from the 27851 normal.