Pembroke, NC 28372 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pembroke, NC, ZIP 28372
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 233 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Pembroke, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Pembroke has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pembroke's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pembroke compares
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Pembroke places 9,904 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 165 of 1,078.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Pembroke can differ from the 28372 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pembroke's frost date answer different questions.