Nashville-Davidson, TN 37228 Frost Dates
Nashville-Davidson, TN: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Nashville-Davidson 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 9 weeks until Nashville-Davidson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Nashville-Davidson's growing season runs about 213 days, ranking 14,417 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 260 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37228's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Nashville-Davidson's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Nashville-Davidson can differ from the 37228 normal.