Dover, TN 37058 Frost Dates
Dover, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Dover 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 Dover's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dover against the rest of the dataset
Dover's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,034 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 337 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37058's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dover's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dover can differ from the 37058 normal.