Pleasant Garden, NC 27406 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pleasant Garden, NC, ZIP 27406
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 217 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasant Garden in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Pleasant Garden has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pleasant Garden's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pleasant Garden compares
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Pleasant Garden places 13,461 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 670 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Pleasant Garden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Pleasant Garden can differ from the 27406 normal.