Burnsville, NC 28714 Frost Dates
28714, near Burnsville, NC: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Burnsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Burnsville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Burnsville's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burnsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Burnsville places 24,906 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,014 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28714: local microclimates, on what one yard in Burnsville can differ from the 28714 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Burnsville's frost date answer different questions.