Statesville, NC 28677 Frost Dates
28677, near Statesville, NC: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Statesville 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
Statesville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Statesville against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Statesville's last and first frost, putting it 10,323 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 218 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28677: the frost range, on how to read the range around Statesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Statesville can differ from the 28677 normal.