Broadway, NC 28368 Frost Dates
28368, near Broadway, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Broadway 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
Broadway's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Broadway's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Broadway against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Broadway places 16,951 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 849 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28368: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Broadway's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Broadway's dates instead of trusting one.