Cherryville, NC 28021 Frost Dates
28021, near Cherryville, NC: the frost window
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cherryville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cherryville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/12 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cherryville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Cherryville places 18,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 903 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28021: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cherryville can differ from the 28021 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Cherryville's frost date answer different questions.