Newport, NC 28570 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Newport, NC?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 236 frost-free days later.
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 Newport, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Newport before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Newport's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Newport compares
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Newport places 9,425 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 129 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Newport's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Newport's dates instead of trusting one.