Burns, TN 37025 Frost Dates
Burns, TN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Burns 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Burns's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Burns's last frost
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 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burns against the rest of the dataset
Burns's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,140 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 559 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37025's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Burns can differ from the 37025 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Burns's frost date answer different questions.