Pinebluff, NC 28373 Frost Dates
Pinebluff, NC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Pinebluff, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Pinebluff's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/25 isn't a guarantee
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.
Pinebluff against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Pinebluff places 9,621 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 149 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28373's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pinebluff can differ from the 28373 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Pinebluff's frost date answer different questions.