Snow Hill, NC 28580 Frost Dates
28580, near Snow Hill, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Snow Hill in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Snow Hill'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.
The actual range around Snow Hill's last frost
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.
Snow Hill against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 232 frost-free days, Snow Hill places 10,059 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 187 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28580: the frost range, on how to read the range around Snow Hill's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Snow Hill can differ from the 28580 normal.