Belle Meade, TN 37011 Frost Dates
37011, near Belle Meade, TN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Belle Meade 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
Belle Meade'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
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belle Meade against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Belle Meade places 15,638 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 369 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37011: the frost range, on how to read the range around Belle Meade's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Belle Meade can differ from the 37011 normal.