Where We Work, by County
Every town and neighborhood page on this site, grouped by county, with one line on what's different about each.
Frost Fire Heating And Cooling covers the Raleigh–Durham Triangle and Johnston County from a base in Clayton. Drive times below are approximate, from Clayton, without traffic. Call (919) 230-4439 if you don't see your area; we'll tell you honestly whether it's in range.
Johnston County
Our home county. Most towns here use Johnston County Building Inspections for HVAC permits; Clayton runs its own for property inside town limits.
Town pages
- Clayton — Our base. Most Clayton-address homes we service sit outside town limits, which changes the permit office.
- Smithfield — County seat, about 23 min away. The oldest in-town housing we work in; town-run electric.
- Selma — About 26 min. Older homes and the widest mix of heating fuels in the county; Selma Electric.
- Wilson's Mills — About 17 min. Median home built in 2020, and most run on heat pumps.
- Benson — About 39 min. Mostly rural addresses outside town; Town of Benson electric inside it.
Clayton-area neighborhoods and corridors
- Flowers Plantation — Large development in unincorporated Johnston County, mostly recent construction.
- Heat pump repair in Flowers Plantation — Just heat pumps, in the same community.
- Riverwood — Inside Clayton town limits since its 1999 annexation.
- Glen Laurel — Inside town limits; annexed in phases starting in 1993.
- Plantation Pointe — Outside town limits, so the county handles permits.
- Covered Bridge — Tracts along Covered Bridge Rd, many annexed into Clayton, some not.
- Barber Mill — A road corridor rather than one subdivision, with mixed town and county parcels.
- Emergency AC in Barber Mill — After-hours cooling calls along the Barber Mill corridor.
- Downtown Clayton — Inside town limits, including the historic district and its older houses.
- Homes along the Neuse in Clayton — River-adjacent streets, where flood-zone rules affect where equipment can sit.
- Veterans Parkway corridor — The former NC 42 West, renamed in February 2025.
- Buffalo Road corridor — Largely unincorporated, around Flowers Crossroads at Buffalo Rd and NC 42.
- Corinth-Holders — Unincorporated, near NC 96 and NC 231, with mostly newer homes.
Other Johnston County communities
- Cleveland community — Unincorporated, with Garner or Clayton mailing addresses; 14 completed jobs, the most of any neighborhood page.
- Crescent Mills — A new subdivision in Wilson's Mills, not Clayton.
- Smithfield outlets corridor — Homes within about a mile and a half of Outlet Center Dr at I-95.
- Archer Lodge — About 12 min north of Clayton.
- Pine Level — About 31 min, east of Smithfield.
- Micro — About 33 min; one of the older housing stocks in the county.
- Four Oaks — About 34 min, south toward Benson.
- Furnace repair in Four Oaks — Just furnaces and heating, in Four Oaks.
- Kenly — About 36 min; mostly Johnston, with a part in Wilson County.
- Princeton — About 37 min, in eastern Johnston.
- Willow Spring — Unincorporated, straddling southeastern Wake and western Johnston.
Wake County
Permit offices vary by town here, and a quarter or more of some towns' mailing addresses fall under Wake County's own jurisdiction.
Town pages
- Raleigh — Where most of our jobs are, about 33 min from Clayton.
- Garner — About 23 min, just across the county line.
- Knightdale — About 24 min, with electric split between Duke and Wake Electric.
- Wendell — About 19 min. Young housing, and plenty of first-hot-day AC calls.
- Zebulon — About 28 min. Some Zebulon addresses are actually in Johnston County.
- Rolesville — About 39 min. A gas-heat town with a 2000s building boom.
- Wake Forest — About 44 min; Wake Forest Power covers part of town.
- Fuquay-Varina — About 37 min, in southern Wake.
- Holly Springs — About 41 min, in southwestern Wake.
- Apex — About 42 min; much of the town runs on Apex's own electric utility.
- Cary — About 44 min, and one of our larger job histories.
- Morrisville — About 48 min, near RDU.
Wake County neighborhoods
- White Oak (Garner) — Mostly inside Garner limits, with a few unincorporated exceptions.
- Vandora Springs (Garner) — The Vandora-named subdivisions inside Garner.
- Homes around Lake Benson — The reservoir is Raleigh's; the page covers the Garner homes near it.
- Garner Station Blvd area — A commercial street, plus the homes near it.
- Shotwell — A historic community in unincorporated Wake County, near the Johnston line.
- Eagle Rock — A historic eastern Wake community between Wendell and Knightdale.
- Wendell Falls — A large planned community inside Wendell town limits.
- Knightdale Station — Inside Knightdale limits, mostly built in the 2010s.
- Mingo Creek — Inside Knightdale limits; homes from the mid-2000s.
- Granite Falls (Rolesville) — Inside Rolesville limits, mostly built around 2018.
- Rolesville Crossing — The newest homes on this list, inside Rolesville.
- Heritage (Wake Forest) — A large Wake Forest neighborhood, mostly from the 2000s.
- Holding Village (Wake Forest) — A newer Wake Forest neighborhood, mostly from the 2020s.
- South Lakes (Fuquay-Varina) — Inside Fuquay-Varina limits, mostly from the 2010s.
- Bentwinds (Fuquay-Varina) — Older sections sit outside town limits, newer ones inside.
- Sunset Lake — The name covers parts of both Holly Springs and Fuquay-Varina.
Harnett County
Angier, Lillington and Dunn issue their own permits; Harnett County handles the rest.
- Angier — About 39 min, with a town-run permit office.
- Coats — About 44 min, in eastern Harnett.
- Buies Creek — About 49 min; an unincorporated community, home of Campbell University.
- Lillington — County seat, about 52 min; the far edge of our area.
Franklin County
- Youngsville — About 48 min, north of Wake Forest.
- Sunday HVAC in Youngsville — Weekend service in Youngsville, at weekday prices.
Durham County
- Durham — About 57 min, and our second-largest job history after Raleigh.