Duck, NC 27965 Frost Dates
27965, near Duck, NC: the frost window
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
Duck's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 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
About 230 days separate Duck's last and first frost, putting it 10,453 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 231 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27965: local microclimates, on what one yard in Duck can differ from the 27965 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Duck's frost date answer different questions.