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White House, TN 37188 Frost Dates

White House, TN: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.

White House sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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

With roughly 9 weeks until White House'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 House's last frost

04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

White House against the rest of the dataset

About 206 days separate White House's last and first frost, putting it 15,969 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 415 of 770.

Learn more

Before leaning on 37188's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around White House's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in White House can differ from the 37188 normal.