Carolina Beach, NC 28410 Frost Dates
Carolina Beach, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 204 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Carolina Beach in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Carolina Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Carolina Beach's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carolina Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Carolina Beach places 8,541 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 69 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28410's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Carolina Beach's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Carolina Beach can differ from the 28410 normal.