Hayesville, NC 28904 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hayesville, NC, ZIP 28904
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 182 frost-free days later.
Hayesville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Hayesville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hayesville's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hayesville compares
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Hayesville places 24,289 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,010 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Hayesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Hayesville can differ from the 28904 normal.