Laurel Park, NC 28727 Frost Dates
28727, near Laurel Park, NC: the frost window
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
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 Laurel Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Laurel Park's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Laurel Park's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Laurel Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Laurel Park places 20,374 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 962 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28727: local microclimates, on what one yard in Laurel Park can differ from the 28727 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Laurel Park's frost date answer different questions.