Old Fort, NC 28762 Frost Dates
28762, near Old Fort, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Old Fort sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Old Fort's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Old Fort against the rest of the dataset
Old Fort's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,934 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 1,006 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28762: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Old Fort's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Old Fort's dates instead of trusting one.