Rosman, NC 28747 Frost Dates
Rosman, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Rosman sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 8 weeks until Rosman's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rosman's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rosman against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Rosman places 23,258 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 999 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28747's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Rosman can differ from the 28747 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Rosman's frost date answer different questions.