La Vergne, TN 37013 Frost Dates
37013, near La Vergne, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
La Vergne 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
La Vergne'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.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 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 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Vergne against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, La Vergne places 15,145 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 348 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37013: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and La Vergne's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around La Vergne's dates instead of trusting one.