Mooresboro, NC 28024 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mooresboro, NC, ZIP 28024
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 195 frost-free days later.
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 Mooresboro, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Mooresboro has about 8 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mooresboro compares
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Mooresboro places 19,351 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 924 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Mooresboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Mooresboro's dates instead of trusting one.