Roxboro, NC 27574 Frost Dates
27574, near Roxboro, NC: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Roxboro 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
Roxboro'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 Roxboro's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Roxboro against the rest of the dataset
Roxboro's growing season runs about 194 days, ranking 19,469 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 929 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27574: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Roxboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Roxboro's dates instead of trusting one.