Dickson, TN 37055 Frost Dates
37055, near Dickson, TN: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Dickson 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
Dickson'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 04/16 isn't a guarantee
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 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.
Dickson against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Dickson's last and first frost, putting it 19,753 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 586 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37055: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dickson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dickson can differ from the 37055 normal.