Soddy-Daisy, TN 37304 Frost Dates
Soddy-Daisy, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Soddy-Daisy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Soddy-Daisy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Soddy-Daisy's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Soddy-Daisy against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Soddy-Daisy's last and first frost, putting it 15,549 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 356 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37304's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Soddy-Daisy's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Soddy-Daisy's dates instead of trusting one.