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McEwen, TN 37101 Frost Dates

McEwen, TN: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.

McEwen 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 10 weeks until McEwen'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

04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

McEwen against the rest of the dataset

McEwen's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,786 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 298 of 770.

Learn more

Before leaning on 37101's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around McEwen's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in McEwen can differ from the 37101 normal.