Bryson City, NC 28702 Frost Dates
Bryson City, NC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Bryson City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Bryson City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/13 isn't a guarantee
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bryson City against the rest of the dataset
About 194 days separate Bryson City's last and first frost, putting it 19,516 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 939 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28702's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bryson City can differ from the 28702 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bryson City's frost date answer different questions.