Duck, NC 27927 Frost Dates
Duck, 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.
Duck 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 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
03/27 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.
Duck against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 238 frost-free days, Duck places 9,007 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 110 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27927'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.