Nashville-Davidson, TN 37208 Frost Dates
37208, near Nashville-Davidson, TN: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
Nashville-Davidson 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
Nashville-Davidson's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nashville-Davidson against the rest of the dataset
About 213 days separate Nashville-Davidson's last and first frost, putting it 14,410 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 253 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37208: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Nashville-Davidson's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Nashville-Davidson's dates instead of trusting one.