Lumber Bridge, NC 28357 Frost Dates
28357, near Lumber Bridge, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lumber Bridge in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lumber Bridge'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.
The actual range around Lumber Bridge's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lumber Bridge against the rest of the dataset
About 214 days separate Lumber Bridge's last and first frost, putting it 14,392 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 728 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28357: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lumber Bridge can differ from the 28357 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Lumber Bridge's frost date answer different questions.