Scotland Neck, NC 27874 Frost Dates
Scotland Neck, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Scotland Neck, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Scotland Neck's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scotland Neck against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Scotland Neck's last and first frost, putting it 11,223 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 377 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27874's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Scotland Neck's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Scotland Neck can differ from the 27874 normal.