Duck, NC 27939 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Duck, NC?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 230 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 Duck, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Duck before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Duck's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Duck compares
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Duck places 10,451 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 229 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Duck's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Duck's dates instead of trusting one.