Roseboro, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Roseboro, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Roseboro lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Roseboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Roseboro — the short answer
Roseboro, North Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 260 days between hard freezes, across 926 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- Sampson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Sampson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~260
- Sampson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 926 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Sampson County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Roseboro's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Roseboro's 260-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Roseboro
Each reading below is measured for Roseboro itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRoseboro runs about 260 days between hard freezes (read from Sampson County, the closest normal to Roseboro) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRoseboro sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Roseboro is in
Roseboro sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Roseboro's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sampson County.
What Grows in Roseboro
Every plant below cleared Roseboro's own zone 8b and its 260-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Roseboro?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
Documented around Roseboro
Survey cells within 31 miles of Roseboro checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 61 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Roseboro
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Roseboro. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SPEEDWAY #6991Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SCOTCHMAN 3105Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- EZ MART/ALHOBISHI CONV STORES&RENTALSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- OWEN CHEVROLETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- 3-WAY FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- ROSEBORO-SALEMBURG MIDDLE SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- HURLEY'S FARM CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- EARL DAVISUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- HAYNE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- FOUR ELEVEN SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MIDWAY DINERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- H W SESSOMS & SONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Roseboro's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Roseboro.
Total Sites
98
within ~10 miles of Roseboro
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Roseboro
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Roseboro
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Roseboro, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 68 sites within ~10 miles of Roseboro. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Roseboro
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roseboro average
Your land is one point inside Roseboro
Everything above resolves to Roseboro as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 926 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Sampson County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Roseboro Average
Roseboro Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Roseboro
- ●One soil character for all of Roseboro
- ●Frost dates read at Roseboro's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Roseboro's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Roseboro
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Roseboro, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Roseboro averages can't show:
We read public map data around Roseboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roseboro average
How we know this about Roseboro
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Sampson County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Roseboro
When does frost risk typically end in Roseboro?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Roseboro typically lands around Mar 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 1.
When is the first frost in Roseboro?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Roseboro typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 260 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Roseboro?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Roseboro sees about 260 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 12, about 225 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Roseboro?
The federal record around Roseboro shows 98 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Roseboro?
From about Oct 27 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Roseboro's scale — its 8b band and its 260-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Roseboro's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Roseboro’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Roseboro's own scale — the 926 acres it covers and 98 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Roseboro's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 98 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Roseboro, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Roseboro's boundary and the 926 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~260-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Roseboro's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Roseboro checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Roseboro has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Sampson County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Roseboro's 926 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sampson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sampson County
- The growing challenges every North Carolina grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom North Carolina
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Sampson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Roseboro's 926 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Roseboro you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 926 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Roseboro-wide figureread your own land →