Orrum, NC 28369 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Orrum, NC, ZIP 28369
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 219 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 Orrum, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Orrum has about 10 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 Orrum's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Orrum compares
At roughly 219 frost-free days, Orrum places 13,127 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 641 of 1,078.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Orrum can differ from the 28369 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Orrum's frost date answer different questions.