Woodbury, TN 37026 Frost Dates
37026, near Woodbury, TN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
Woodbury 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
Woodbury'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.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodbury against the rest of the dataset
About 184 days separate Woodbury's last and first frost, putting it 23,551 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 720 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37026: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodbury can differ from the 37026 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Woodbury's frost date answer different questions.