Milton, NC 27343 Frost Dates
27343, near Milton, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. 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
Milton's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 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
About 200 days separate Milton's last and first frost, putting it 17,912 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 892 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27343: the frost range, on how to read the range around Milton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Milton can differ from the 27343 normal.