Waco, NC 28169 Frost Dates
Waco, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Waco, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Waco's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Waco's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waco against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Waco places 19,347 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 923 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28169's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Waco can differ from the 28169 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Waco's frost date answer different questions.