Whiteville, NC 28472 Frost Dates
Whiteville, NC: when does the frost end?
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.
Whiteville 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 10 weeks until Whiteville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Whiteville'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.
Whiteville against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Whiteville's last and first frost, putting it 13,015 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 617 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28472's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Whiteville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Whiteville can differ from the 28472 normal.