Pineville, NC 28226 Frost Dates
Pineville, NC: when does the frost end?
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.
Pineville sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 10 weeks until Pineville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pineville's last frost
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
About 221 days separate Pineville's last and first frost, putting it 12,473 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 534 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28226's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Pineville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one.