Pollocksville, NC 28573 Frost Dates
28573, near Pollocksville, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
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 Pollocksville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pollocksville's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/20 isn't a guarantee
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pollocksville against the rest of the dataset
Pollocksville's growing season runs about 246 days, ranking 7,946 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NC, it ranks 55 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28573: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pollocksville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pollocksville's dates instead of trusting one.