Four Oaks, NC 27524 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Four Oaks, NC, ZIP 27524
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 220 frost-free days later.
Four Oaks sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Four Oaks 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 Four Oaks's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Four Oaks compares
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Four Oaks places 12,816 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 586 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Four Oaks's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Four Oaks's dates instead of trusting one.