Adams, TN 37010 Frost Dates
37010, near Adams, TN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Adams 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
Adams'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
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Adams against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Adams places 17,010 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 514 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37010: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Adams's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Adams's dates instead of trusting one.