Tabor City, NC 28463 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Tabor City, NC, ZIP 28463
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 219 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tabor City 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 Tabor City 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 Tabor City compares
About 219 days separate Tabor City's last and first frost, putting it 13,018 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 619 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Tabor City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Tabor City's dates instead of trusting one.