Vanleer, TN 37181 Frost Dates
37181, near Vanleer, TN: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Vanleer 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
Vanleer'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 Vanleer's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vanleer against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Vanleer places 20,036 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 599 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37181: the frost range, on how to read the range around Vanleer's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Vanleer can differ from the 37181 normal.