Brunswick, NC 28424 Frost Dates
Brunswick, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 219 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 Brunswick, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Brunswick's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Brunswick's last frost
04/01 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 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brunswick against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Brunswick's last and first frost, putting it 13,074 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 634 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28424's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Brunswick's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Brunswick can differ from the 28424 normal.