North Topsail Beach, NC 28460 Frost Dates
North Topsail Beach, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
North Topsail Beach 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
With roughly 11 weeks until North Topsail Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around North Topsail Beach's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Topsail Beach against the rest of the dataset
North Topsail Beach's growing season runs about 233 days, ranking 9,935 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 167 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28460's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and North Topsail Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around North Topsail Beach's dates instead of trusting one.