Murfreesboro, TN 37127 Frost Dates
Murfreesboro, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 202 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 Murfreesboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Murfreesboro'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
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Murfreesboro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Murfreesboro places 17,086 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 529 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37127's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Murfreesboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Murfreesboro can differ from the 37127 normal.