Plymouth, NC 27962 Frost Dates
27962, near Plymouth, NC: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Plymouth sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Plymouth's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Plymouth's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Plymouth against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Plymouth's last and first frost, putting it 12,516 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 539 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27962: local microclimates, on what one yard in Plymouth can differ from the 27962 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Plymouth's frost date answer different questions.