Stantonsburg, NC 27883 Frost Dates
27883, near Stantonsburg, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/22, roughly 206 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Stantonsburg 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
Stantonsburg'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.
Why 03/22 isn't a guarantee
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.
Stantonsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Stantonsburg's last and first frost, putting it 9,498 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 136 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27883: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Stantonsburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Stantonsburg's dates instead of trusting one.