Brookford, NC 28602 Frost Dates
28602, near Brookford, NC: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Brookford sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Brookford's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Brookford's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brookford against the rest of the dataset
Brookford's growing season runs about 219 days, ranking 13,092 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 636 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28602: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brookford can differ from the 28602 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Brookford's frost date answer different questions.