Maggie Valley, NC 28785 Frost Dates
Maggie Valley, NC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Maggie Valley sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Maggie Valley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Maggie Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Maggie Valley's last and first frost, putting it 30,042 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 1,038 of 1,078.
Learn more
Before leaning on 28785's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Maggie Valley's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Maggie Valley's dates instead of trusting one.