Carrboro, NC 27510 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Carrboro, NC, ZIP 27510
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 222 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Carrboro in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 8a around Carrboro has about 10 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 Carrboro's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Carrboro compares
About 222 days separate Carrboro's last and first frost, putting it 12,219 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 454 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Carrboro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Carrboro can differ from the 27510 normal.