Lumberton, NC 28360 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lumberton, NC, ZIP 28360
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/11, about 234 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Lumberton, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Lumberton has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lumberton's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lumberton compares
At roughly 234 frost-free days, Lumberton places 9,721 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 162 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Lumberton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Lumberton can differ from the 28360 normal.