Murfreesboro, TN 37130 Frost Dates
Murfreesboro, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Murfreesboro in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
The actual range around Murfreesboro's last frost
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
About 202 days separate Murfreesboro's last and first frost, putting it 17,088 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 531 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37130's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Murfreesboro's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Murfreesboro's dates instead of trusting one.