Elizabeth City, NC 27917 Frost Dates
Elizabeth City, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Elizabeth City sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 12 weeks until Elizabeth City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Elizabeth City's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elizabeth City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 238 frost-free days, Elizabeth City places 8,949 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 101 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27917's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Elizabeth City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Elizabeth City can differ from the 27917 normal.