Bryson City, NC 28713 Frost Dates
28713, near Bryson City, NC: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bryson City in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bryson City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 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
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Bryson City places 21,621 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 978 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28713: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bryson City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bryson City can differ from the 28713 normal.