Dunn, NC 28335 Frost Dates
Dunn, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Dunn, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Dunn's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dunn's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 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.
Dunn against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Dunn places 11,173 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 362 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28335's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Dunn's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Dunn's dates instead of trusting one.