Moyock, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Moyock, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Moyock lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Moyock — the short answer
Moyock, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 263 days between hard freezes, across 7K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~263
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 7K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Moyock's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Moyock's 263-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Moyock
Each reading below is measured for Moyock itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMoyock runs about 263 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMoyock sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Moyock is in
Moyock sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Moyock's own centroid rather than borrowed from Currituck County.
What Grows in Moyock
Every plant below cleared Moyock's own zone 8a and its 263-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Moyock?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Moyock
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Moyock, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Moyock
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Moyock. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BILLY TICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- FRED NEWBERNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- TYNES FARMS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- H.J. WINSLOW, JR.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- STATELINE IMPORTS INC DBAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- STAPLES & SMITHSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CURRITUCK GRAINUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- GARRETT & EVANS FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- JARVIS FARMS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- CK-130 LU-S3A NEAR MOYOCK, NCNitrate · 1.6 mi
- DUCK THRU FOOD STORE 29Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- XE SERVICES LLC / US TRAINING CENTERBrownfields · 1.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Moyock's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Moyock.
Total Sites
114
within ~10 miles of Moyock
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Moyock
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Moyock
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Moyock, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 78 sites within ~10 miles of Moyock. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Moyock
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moyock average
Your land is one point inside Moyock
Everything above resolves to Moyock as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 7K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Moyock Average
Moyock Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Moyock
- ●One soil character for all of Moyock
- ●Frost dates read at Moyock's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Moyock's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Moyock
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Moyock, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Moyock averages can't show:
We read public map data around Moyock — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moyock average
How we know this about Moyock
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Moyock’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Moyock
When does frost risk typically end in Moyock?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Moyock typically lands around Mar 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 1.
When is the first frost in Moyock?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Moyock typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 263 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Moyock?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Moyock sees about 263 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 15, about 228 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Moyock?
The federal record around Moyock is a meaningful one — 114 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (78), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Moyock?
From about Oct 30 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Moyock's scale — its 8a band and its 263-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Moyock's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Moyock’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Moyock's own scale — its own ~263-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,678 acres it covers and 114 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Moyock's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Moyock's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 29 and the ~263-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 114 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Moyock, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Moyock's boundary and the 6,678 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~263-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Moyock's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Moyocklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Moyock's 6,678 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Currituck County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Currituck County
- The growing challenges every North Carolina grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom North Carolina
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Currituck County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Moyock's 6,678 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Moyock you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,678 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Moyock-wide figureread your own land →