Woodfin, NC 28804 Frost Dates
28804, near Woodfin, NC: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 205 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 Woodfin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodfin'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 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 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodfin against the rest of the dataset
Woodfin's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,227 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 826 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28804: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodfin can differ from the 28804 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Woodfin's frost date answer different questions.