Nashville-Davidson, TN 37244 Frost Dates
37244, 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.
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
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.
The actual range around Nashville-Davidson's last frost
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
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Nashville-Davidson places 14,426 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 269 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37244: local microclimates, on what one yard in Nashville-Davidson can differ from the 37244 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Nashville-Davidson's frost date answer different questions.