Rowland, NC 29547 Frost Dates
29547, near Rowland, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rowland 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
Rowland'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
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rowland against the rest of the dataset
Rowland's growing season runs about 233 days, ranking 9,944 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 169 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29547: the frost range, on how to read the range around Rowland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Rowland can differ from the 29547 normal.