Ayden, NC 28513 Frost Dates
28513, near Ayden, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 232 days after the last spring frost.
Ayden 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
Ayden's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/26 isn't a guarantee
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 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.
Ayden against the rest of the dataset
Ayden's growing season runs about 232 days, ranking 10,040 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 183 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28513: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Ayden's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ayden's dates instead of trusting one.