East Arcadia, NC 28434 Frost Dates
28434, near East Arcadia, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
East Arcadia sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
East Arcadia's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 East Arcadia's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Arcadia against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate East Arcadia's last and first frost, putting it 11,280 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 394 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28434: local microclimates, on what one yard in East Arcadia can differ from the 28434 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and East Arcadia's frost date answer different questions.