Winfall, NC 27985 Frost Dates
Winfall, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Winfall 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
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
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 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.
Winfall against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Winfall's last and first frost, putting it 9,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 112 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27985's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Winfall's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Winfall's dates instead of trusting one.