Mooresboro, NC 28114 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mooresboro, NC, ZIP 28114
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.
Why 04/12 isn't a guarantee
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 19,352 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 925 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Mooresboro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Mooresboro can differ from the 28114 normal.