Lobelville, TN 37140 Frost Dates
37140, near Lobelville, TN: the frost window
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lobelville 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
Lobelville'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.
The actual range around Lobelville's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lobelville against the rest of the dataset
Lobelville's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,309 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 583 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37140: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lobelville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lobelville can differ from the 37140 normal.