Manteo, NC 27915 Frost Dates
27915, near Manteo, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/01, roughly 185 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/20, roughly 292 days after the last spring frost.
Manteo sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Manteo's growing season runs out in roughly 16 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Manteo's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Manteo against the rest of the dataset
About 292 days separate Manteo's last and first frost, putting it 4,368 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 2 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27915: the frost range, on how to read the range around Manteo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Manteo can differ from the 27915 normal.