Weaverville, NC 28701 Frost Dates
28701, near Weaverville, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Weaverville sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Weaverville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/28 isn't a guarantee
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Weaverville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Weaverville places 27,875 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,025 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28701: local microclimates, on what one yard in Weaverville can differ from the 28701 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Weaverville's frost date answer different questions.