Canton, NC 28728 Frost Dates
28728, near Canton, NC: the frost window
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Canton sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Canton's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/19 isn't a guarantee
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Canton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Canton places 23,144 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 998 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28728: local microclimates, on what one yard in Canton can differ from the 28728 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Canton's frost date answer different questions.