White Bluff, TN 37187 Frost Dates
White Bluff, TN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts White Bluff 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 8 weeks until White Bluff's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around White Bluff'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.
White Bluff against the rest of the dataset
White Bluff's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,889 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 592 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37187's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around White Bluff's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in White Bluff can differ from the 37187 normal.