Bell Buckle, TN 37018 Frost Dates
37018, near Bell Buckle, TN: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Bell Buckle, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bell Buckle'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.
The actual range around Bell Buckle's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bell Buckle against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Bell Buckle places 14,349 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 246 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37018: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bell Buckle can differ from the 37018 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bell Buckle's frost date answer different questions.