Columbia, NC 27925 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Columbia, NC, ZIP 27925
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/13, about 231 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Columbia in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 8b around Columbia has about 11 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
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Columbia compares
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Columbia places 10,245 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 206 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Columbia's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Columbia's dates instead of trusting one.