Kenansville, NC 28349 Frost Dates
Kenansville, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. 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 Kenansville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Kenansville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Kenansville's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kenansville against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Kenansville's last and first frost, putting it 11,252 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 384 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28349's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Kenansville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Kenansville can differ from the 28349 normal.