Biltmore Forest, NC 28813 Frost Dates
28813, near Biltmore Forest, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Biltmore Forest 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
Biltmore Forest'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Biltmore Forest against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Biltmore Forest places 17,549 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 882 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28813: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Biltmore Forest's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Biltmore Forest's dates instead of trusting one.