Tennessee Ridge, TN 37175 Frost Dates
Tennessee Ridge, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 211 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 Tennessee Ridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Tennessee Ridge'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.
Tennessee Ridge against the rest of the dataset
Tennessee Ridge's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,803 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 301 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37175's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Tennessee Ridge's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Tennessee Ridge's dates instead of trusting one.