Atkinson, NC 28447 Frost Dates
Atkinson, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Atkinson sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
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.
The actual range around Atkinson'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.
Atkinson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Atkinson places 11,289 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 401 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28447's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Atkinson can differ from the 28447 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Atkinson's frost date answer different questions.