Winfall, NC 27930 Frost Dates
Winfall, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Winfall, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Winfall's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winfall against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Winfall's last and first frost, putting it 10,459 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 234 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27930's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Winfall can differ from the 27930 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Winfall's frost date answer different questions.