Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lake Waccamaw, NC, ZIP 28450
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 226 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Waccamaw in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Lake Waccamaw 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 Lake Waccamaw's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lake Waccamaw compares
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Lake Waccamaw places 11,231 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 381 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Lake Waccamaw's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Waccamaw's dates instead of trusting one.