Rose Hill, NC 28458 Frost Dates
Rose Hill, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Rose Hill 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Rose Hill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rose Hill's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rose Hill against the rest of the dataset
Rose Hill's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,226 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 379 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28458's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Rose Hill's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rose Hill's dates instead of trusting one.