Weldon, NC 27890 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Weldon, NC, ZIP 27890
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 222 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Weldon in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Weldon 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.
The actual range around Weldon's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Weldon compares
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Weldon places 12,281 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 458 of 1,078.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Weldon can differ from the 27890 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Weldon's frost date answer different questions.