Rolesville, NC 27697 Frost Dates
Rolesville, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rolesville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Rolesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rolesville's last frost
04/04 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 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rolesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Rolesville places 14,473 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 740 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 27697's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Rolesville can differ from the 27697 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Rolesville's frost date answer different questions.