Conway, NC 27820 Frost Dates
Conway, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Conway 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Conway's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Conway's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Conway against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Conway's last and first frost, putting it 15,709 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 795 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27820's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Conway can differ from the 27820 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Conway's frost date answer different questions.