Fletcher, NC 28760 Frost Dates
28760, near Fletcher, NC: the frost window
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fletcher in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Fletcher'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.
The actual range around Fletcher's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fletcher against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Fletcher places 20,234 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 954 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28760: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Fletcher's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fletcher's dates instead of trusting one.