Mocksville, NC 27028 Frost Dates
27028, near Mocksville, NC: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Mocksville 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
Mocksville'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
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mocksville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Mocksville places 20,275 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 955 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27028: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mocksville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mocksville can differ from the 27028 normal.