Belle Meade, TN 37215 Frost Dates
Belle Meade, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Belle Meade 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Belle Meade's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Belle Meade's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belle Meade against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Belle Meade places 15,641 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 372 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37215's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Belle Meade can differ from the 37215 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Belle Meade's frost date answer different questions.