Broadway, NC 27505 Frost Dates
27505, near Broadway, 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 10/30, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Broadway sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Broadway'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.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
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 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Broadway against the rest of the dataset
Broadway's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 16,950 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 848 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27505: local microclimates, on what one yard in Broadway can differ from the 27505 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Broadway's frost date answer different questions.