Lumberton, NC 28358 Frost Dates
Lumberton, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
Lumberton sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Lumberton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lumberton's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 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.
Lumberton against the rest of the dataset
Lumberton's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,719 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 160 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28358's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lumberton can differ from the 28358 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Lumberton's frost date answer different questions.