Bridgeton, NC 28527 Frost Dates
28527, near Bridgeton, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 242 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 Bridgeton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bridgeton's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/21 isn't a guarantee
03/21 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 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bridgeton against the rest of the dataset
About 242 days separate Bridgeton's last and first frost, putting it 8,402 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 64 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28527: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bridgeton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bridgeton can differ from the 28527 normal.