Lansing, NC 28693 Frost Dates
28693, near Lansing, NC: the frost window
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Lansing, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lansing's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lansing's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lansing against the rest of the dataset
Lansing's growing season runs about 154 days, ranking 34,465 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 1,078 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28693: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lansing can differ from the 28693 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Lansing's frost date answer different questions.