Belhaven, NC 27885 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Belhaven, NC?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/25, about 253 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Belhaven, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 13 weeks of growing season left in Belhaven before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Belhaven's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Belhaven compares
Belhaven's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,164 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 41 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Belhaven's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Belhaven can differ from the 27885 normal.