Seaboard, NC 27866 Frost Dates
Seaboard, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Seaboard 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 10 weeks until Seaboard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Seaboard's last frost
03/31 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 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Seaboard against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Seaboard places 12,327 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 463 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27866's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Seaboard can differ from the 27866 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Seaboard's frost date answer different questions.