Pineville, NC 28273 Frost Dates
28273, near Pineville, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. 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
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.
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 12,475 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 536 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28273: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 28273 normal.