Pineville, NC 28134 Frost Dates
28134, near Pineville, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pineville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Pineville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pineville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Pineville places 12,471 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 532 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28134: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Pineville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one.