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Brentwood, TN 37027 Frost Dates

Brentwood, TN: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 193 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 Brentwood, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Brentwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Brentwood's last frost

04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Brentwood against the rest of the dataset

Brentwood's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,729 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 585 of 770.

Learn more

Before leaning on 37027's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Brentwood can differ from the 37027 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Brentwood's frost date answer different questions.