Mooresville, NC 28115 Frost Dates
28115, near Mooresville, NC: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mooresville 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
Mooresville'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.
The actual range around Mooresville's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mooresville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Mooresville places 16,843 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 840 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28115: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mooresville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mooresville can differ from the 28115 normal.