Mount Holly, NC 28214 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mount Holly, NC, ZIP 28214
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 221 frost-free days later.
Mount Holly sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Mount Holly has about 10 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 Mount Holly's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mount Holly compares
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Mount Holly places 12,456 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 530 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Mount Holly's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Holly's dates instead of trusting one.