Beech Mountain, NC 37640 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beech Mountain, NC, ZIP 37640
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 159 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Beech Mountain, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Beech Mountain has about 7 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 Beech Mountain's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Beech Mountain compares
At roughly 159 frost-free days, Beech Mountain places 32,718 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 1,064 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Beech Mountain's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Beech Mountain can differ from the 37640 normal.