Atkinson, NC 28421 Frost Dates
Atkinson, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 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 Atkinson, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Atkinson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 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.
Atkinson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Atkinson places 11,287 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 399 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28421's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Atkinson's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Atkinson's dates instead of trusting one.