Roseboro, NC 28382 Frost Dates
28382, near Roseboro, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/22, roughly 206 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Roseboro in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Roseboro's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Roseboro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Roseboro places 9,455 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 134 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28382: the frost range, on how to read the range around Roseboro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Roseboro can differ from the 28382 normal.