Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Ocean Isle Beach, NC, ZIP 28469
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/17, about 243 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ocean Isle Beach in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Ocean Isle Beach has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Ocean Isle Beach's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ocean Isle Beach compares
At roughly 243 frost-free days, Ocean Isle Beach places 8,316 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 62 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Ocean Isle Beach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Ocean Isle Beach's dates instead of trusting one.