Wilson, NC 27894 Frost Dates
27894, near Wilson, 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.
Wilson 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
Wilson'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.
Wilson against the rest of the dataset
Wilson's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,305 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 124 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27894: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wilson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wilson can differ from the 27894 normal.