Woodfin, NC 28748 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Woodfin, NC, ZIP 28748
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 185 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodfin in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Woodfin has about 8 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 Woodfin's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Woodfin compares
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Woodfin places 23,117 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 992 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodfin's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Woodfin can differ from the 28748 normal.