Newton, NC 28658 Frost Dates
28658, near Newton, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Newton 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
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
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newton against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Newton's last and first frost, putting it 10,337 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 220 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28658: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Newton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Newton's dates instead of trusting one.