Rockingham, NC 28380 Frost Dates
Rockingham, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rockingham 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 Rockingham's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rockingham's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rockingham against the rest of the dataset
Rockingham's growing season runs about 220 days, ranking 12,780 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 575 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28380's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Rockingham's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rockingham's dates instead of trusting one.