Milton, NC 27305 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.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Milton, not a forecast for this year.
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.
The actual range around Milton's last frost
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
Milton's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,911 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 891 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27305's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Milton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Milton can differ from the 27305 normal.