Fair Bluff, NC 28439 Frost Dates
28439, near Fair Bluff, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. 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 Fair Bluff, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fair Bluff'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 Fair Bluff'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.
Fair Bluff against the rest of the dataset
Fair Bluff's growing season runs about 219 days, ranking 13,086 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 635 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28439: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fair Bluff can differ from the 28439 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Fair Bluff's frost date answer different questions.