Newton, NC 28603 Frost Dates
28603, near Newton, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newton 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
Newton'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 Newton'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.
Newton against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Newton's last and first frost, putting it 12,982 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 613 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28603: the frost range, on how to read the range around Newton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Newton can differ from the 28603 normal.