Ashland City, TN 37015 Frost Dates
37015, near Ashland City, TN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Ashland City 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
Ashland City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ashland City against the rest of the dataset
Ashland City's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,426 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 560 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37015: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ashland City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ashland City can differ from the 37015 normal.