Milton, NC 24586 Frost Dates
Milton, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Milton sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Milton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Milton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Milton places 17,909 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 889 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 24586's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Milton can differ from the 24586 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Milton's frost date answer different questions.