Duck, NC 27923 Frost Dates
Duck, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
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 Duck, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Duck's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Duck's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Duck against the rest of the dataset
Duck's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,450 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 228 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27923's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Duck's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Duck's dates instead of trusting one.