Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480 Frost Dates
Wrightsville Beach, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 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 Wrightsville Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Wrightsville Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/20 isn't a guarantee
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wrightsville Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Wrightsville Beach places 8,555 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 71 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28480's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wrightsville Beach can differ from the 28480 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Wrightsville Beach's frost date answer different questions.