The climate is usually without extreme heat or cold, averaging 58 to 65 degrees. Only January has an average low temperature near freezing. Sunny days predominate 10 months of the year. Annual rainfall is about 45 inches. Fairfield Bay's setting Nature's colors subtly shift from summer's bright grass greens to autumn's reds and golds.
Pines stay green even in winter dusted white with a light snowfall about once a year.
Then, spring's flowering dogwoods and red bud trees inspire renewed outdoor activity. Fairfield Bay's southern boundary is five miles of the Greers Ferry Lake shore. The dam generates electricity from two turbines, each rated at 48,000 kilowatts. Little Red River below the dam is a world-class fishery for German brown and rainbow trout. An island in Greers Ferry Lake, Surgarloaf Mountain, beckons naturalists with an outstanding 1.6 mile nature trail which won a national landscape design award and showcases nature's variety of vegetation as well as sandstone formations.