Beaufort, NC 28553 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beaufort, NC, ZIP 28553
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/10, roughly 194 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/01, about 265 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Beaufort, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Beaufort has about 14 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 Beaufort's last frost
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Beaufort compares
At roughly 265 frost-free days, Beaufort places 5,986 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 32 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Beaufort's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Beaufort can differ from the 28553 normal.