Pinebluff, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Pinebluff, 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 Pinebluff lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pinebluff — the short answer
Pinebluff, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 249 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~249
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Pinebluff's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pinebluff's 249-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pinebluff
Each reading below is measured for Pinebluff itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPinebluff runs about 249 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPinebluff 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 Pinebluff is in
Pinebluff sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pinebluff's own centroid rather than borrowed from Moore County.
What Grows in Pinebluff
Every plant below cleared Pinebluff's own zone 8a and its 249-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pinebluff?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Pinebluff
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pinebluff checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 65 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pinebluff
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pinebluff. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KOMERUS & SONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- JOE-JOHNSUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- NICS PIC KWIK #6Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- KWIK-EE 35Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- WINDSTREAM NC INC - PINEBLUFFUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- TOWN OF PINE BLUFF FIRE DEPT.Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- PINEBLUFF MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- TOWN OF PINE BLUFF MAINT. BLDG.Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WILLIAMS BODY SHOP INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- J & W EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- MCNEILL OIL COMPANY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- HAL'S AUTO SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pinebluff'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 Pinebluff.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pinebluff
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pinebluff
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pinebluff, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pinebluff — Superfund (10 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (169 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Pinebluff
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 Pinebluff average
Your land is one point inside Pinebluff
Everything above resolves to Pinebluff as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Pinebluff Average
Pinebluff Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Pinebluff
- ●One soil character for all of Pinebluff
- ●Frost dates read at Pinebluff's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pinebluff's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pinebluff
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pinebluff, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pinebluff averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pinebluff — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pinebluff average
How we know this about Pinebluff
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 Pinebluff’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 Pinebluff
When does frost risk typically end in Pinebluff?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pinebluff typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Pinebluff?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pinebluff typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 249 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pinebluff?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pinebluff sees about 249 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 5, about 214 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pinebluff?
The federal record around Pinebluff runs heavier than most — 271 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (169), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pinebluff?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pinebluff's scale — its 8a band and its 249-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pinebluff'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 Pinebluff’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pinebluff's own scale — its own ~249-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,674 acres it covers and 271 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pinebluff's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pinebluff's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 19 and the ~249-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 271 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pinebluff, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pinebluff's boundary and the 1,674 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~249-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pinebluff's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pinebluff checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pinebluff's 1,674 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Moore County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Moore 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 Moore County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pinebluff's 1,674 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pinebluff you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,674 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Pinebluff-wide figureread your own land →
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