Marion, NC 28761 Frost Dates
28761, near Marion, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Marion, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Marion's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Marion's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Marion against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Marion's last and first frost, putting it 15,187 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 774 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28761: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Marion's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Marion's dates instead of trusting one.