Monroe, NC 28110 Frost Dates
28110, near Monroe, NC: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Monroe in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Monroe's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Monroe's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Monroe against the rest of the dataset
Monroe's growing season runs about 220 days, ranking 12,687 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 547 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28110: the frost range, on how to read the range around Monroe's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Monroe can differ from the 28110 normal.