Cedar Rock, NC 28624 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cedar Rock, NC, ZIP 28624
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/13, about 163 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cedar Rock, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Cedar Rock has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Cedar Rock's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cedar Rock compares
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Cedar Rock places 31,534 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,053 of 1,078.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Cedar Rock's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Cedar Rock's dates instead of trusting one.