Swepsonville, NC 27253 Frost Dates
Swepsonville, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Swepsonville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Swepsonville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Swepsonville against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Swepsonville's last and first frost, putting it 14,098 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 709 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27253's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Swepsonville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Swepsonville can differ from the 27253 normal.