Statesville, NC 28699 Frost Dates
28699, near Statesville, NC: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
Statesville 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.
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.
The actual range around Statesville's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Statesville against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate Statesville's last and first frost, putting it 13,417 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 664 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28699: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Statesville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Statesville's dates instead of trusting one.