Raleigh, NC 27607 Frost Dates
27607, near Raleigh, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
Raleigh 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Raleigh's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Raleigh's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Raleigh against the rest of the dataset
Raleigh's growing season runs about 229 days, ranking 10,502 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 243 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27607: local microclimates, on what one yard in Raleigh can differ from the 27607 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Raleigh's frost date answer different questions.