Laurinburg, NC 28353 Frost Dates
28353, near Laurinburg, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 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 Laurinburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Laurinburg's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/25 isn't a guarantee
03/25 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 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Laurinburg against the rest of the dataset
About 228 days separate Laurinburg's last and first frost, putting it 10,770 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 285 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28353: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Laurinburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Laurinburg's dates instead of trusting one.