Chimney Rock Village, NC 28710 Frost Dates
28710, near Chimney Rock Village, NC: the frost window
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.
Chimney Rock Village 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
Chimney Rock Village's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/05 isn't a guarantee
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chimney Rock Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 207 frost-free days, Chimney Rock Village places 15,890 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 816 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28710: local microclimates, on what one yard in Chimney Rock Village can differ from the 28710 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Chimney Rock Village's frost date answer different questions.