Marshville, NC 28103 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Marshville, NC, ZIP 28103
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 213 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Marshville 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 Marshville has about 9 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 Marshville's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Marshville compares
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Marshville places 14,506 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 748 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Marshville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Marshville's dates instead of trusting one.