Pinehurst, NC 28370 Frost Dates
Pinehurst, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Pinehurst 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 11 weeks until Pinehurst's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pinehurst against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Pinehurst places 9,565 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 142 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28370's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pinehurst can differ from the 28370 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Pinehurst's frost date answer different questions.